Plant miniatures

Hi,

sometimes you need a magnifier to recognize the jewel. Drosera sargentii is such a jewel in miniature and so is its closest relative, Drosera parvula.

The plant is barely 1.5 cm in diameter.



I guess that Drosera parvula is not that widespread in private collections. Unfortunately some years ago mislabelled gemmae have been dispersed and I was one of the victims. I began to become distrustful when my plants grew pure white flowers while other people growing D. parvula posted photos of white flowers with a remarkable purple blotch at the base of each petal.

Thanks God there is Dieter Kadereit who usually grows the real stuff and he kindly supplied me with the real D. parvula later.

The flower of the real thing should look like this:



The flower is also tiny, only about a centimeter across. But I love this flower with its purple blotches.





Too bad this species is very miserly with producing gemmae under my conditions. My 14 plants only produced 9 gemmae in total last autumn! I gave them to somebody I have sent mislabelled gemmae the year before. Well, I´m not sure if I can maintain this species in my collection. Hopefully I´ll receive more gemmae next autumn.


Regards

Andreas