Comprehensive List of Drosera Species
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2017 10:08 pm
I thought this might be a good idea for people (like me) looking into getting various different types of Sundew species (and perhaps other CPs) and just want an easy-to-read list of the different kinds there are without having to click on a link to view a photo for every single one (because I literally couldn't find any lists online that didn't have some species missing, or just a picture of it beside the name!)
I hope this will help people like me in the future who just want to see what all the different kinds of these wonderful plants even look like, without having to look them up for every single one.
Also, if anyone notices that I have the wrong image for a plant or a typo anywhere, feel free to let me know, because I know that often Carnivorous Plant photos (especially for Nepenthes) can be extremely misleading or frequently mislabeled.
I especially will need help for Attainability. I'm not a very experienced grower, so frankly I probably haven't been able to look around long enough to put a very accurate rating on most of these plants (and not at all for Europe)
It would help me out a lot if you could give suggestions on what the attainability is really for plants, and corrections if I've inaccurately rated them. Thank you!
Attainability Guide:
[COMMON] - Very easy to obtain seeds and/or live plants, and is commercially available in most or all online or physical stores, specialist or not.
[EASY] - Can easily find live plants or seeds from nearly all online sellers, but often rarely seen in general plant stores.
[INTERMEDIATE] - Can find seeds from only CP-specialized stores and sellers, but live plants may be harder to find and is not available all the time or in every store.
[HARD] - Can be difficult to find just seeds from any seller, and may belong to a subspecies that is hard to obtain online, or it may be uncommon in the wild, or only sold from where it is endemic. Seldom available, but still may be found on foreign seller websites, or be owned by a certain grower who may be willing to sell if lucky. Still can be seen on grower wishlists, just not as commonly.
[VERY HARD] - Never or almost impossible to find, possibly because the plant itself is very rare, was recently discovered, is very hard to find in the wild (such as being endemic to small region very deep in a mountainous rain forest). Could be a subspecies of a more localized or rarer species, meaning that it would probably be easier to get if in the native country, but outside of or from North America might be impossible.
[N/A] - Unknown, with no seeds or plants available online, and little info is known on the plant. Often a minor species that has little documentation or even specimens that have been obtained yet to be available anywhere. Generally, these kinds are have never even been heard of before, especially not in cultivation. These species may not have photos available because there is no information to be found on them apart from the name.
Growing Difficulty Guide:
[INVASIVE] - Same as below, but may often come as a hitchhiker species, seeming to find its way into anywhere and everywhere in plant pots.
[EASY] - Virtually indestructible, grows really anywhere, highly tolerant of varied climates from cold and dry to as hot and humid as a sauna. Good growers that will expand quickly and seem to last forever. Can and will take a lot of abuse but still pull through.
[MED] - Little more tricky to take care of, but still quite tolerant. May be picky about humidity or temperature, and much less tolerant of mold or algae than easier plants, but given good enough conditions will thrive. May go through dormancy and be quite vulnerable during this time. May be easier to grow from tubers, cuttings or gemmae rather than seeds.
[HARD] - VERY fickle plants that may die off from things as little as fluctuations in humidity, light, temperature, algae or mold growth. Not often recommended to let flower because they are so delicate. Difficult to grow unless given extremely specific conditions that closely mimic their natural environment. Often rare and hard to reproduce, and is easier to obtain through tubers, TC, or other forms of propagation rather than seeds, which may have low germination rates.
[?] - Unknown, because it is so rare in cultivation.
Root-Growing Drosera & Natural Hybrids
Pygmy Drosera
Sources
While I can't give credit to or link every single source I used for this enormous list, both for copyright reasons and just the general usefulness of having publicly available information and pictures, I would like to mention that http://www.growsundews.com, Wikipedia, http://www.tuberous-drosera.net, http://cpphotofinder.com by the wonderful ICPS, and (surprisingly) https://www.ispotnature.org have provided much of the useful information needed to make this list. Wikipedia, while it is missing a LOT of pages on Sundew species, has a complete list of them, which I used as the framework for the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Drosera_species . http://www.growsundews.com gives plenty of helpful and informative advice on many of these plants and how to grow them, as well as provides accurately labelled, high quality photos of many species, all of which are publicly visible. http://www.tuberous-drosera.net helped me find information on many of the rarer and lesser-know species of Australia, along with properly identified pictures. http://cpphotofinder.com has always been one of my favourite sources for pictures of any carnivorous plants, as it provides a large database of accurately-labelled images of nearly every form, variety, cultivar, hybrid, and species of CPs. https://www.ispotnature.org turned out to be especially useful when looking for images on species such as D. acaulis, as it provides user-submitted photos of some very rare plants that I couldn't find elsewhere (not even on http://cpphotofinder.com !).
I hope this will help people like me in the future who just want to see what all the different kinds of these wonderful plants even look like, without having to look them up for every single one.
Also, if anyone notices that I have the wrong image for a plant or a typo anywhere, feel free to let me know, because I know that often Carnivorous Plant photos (especially for Nepenthes) can be extremely misleading or frequently mislabeled.
I especially will need help for Attainability. I'm not a very experienced grower, so frankly I probably haven't been able to look around long enough to put a very accurate rating on most of these plants (and not at all for Europe)
It would help me out a lot if you could give suggestions on what the attainability is really for plants, and corrections if I've inaccurately rated them. Thank you!
Attainability Guide:
[COMMON] - Very easy to obtain seeds and/or live plants, and is commercially available in most or all online or physical stores, specialist or not.
[EASY] - Can easily find live plants or seeds from nearly all online sellers, but often rarely seen in general plant stores.
[INTERMEDIATE] - Can find seeds from only CP-specialized stores and sellers, but live plants may be harder to find and is not available all the time or in every store.
[HARD] - Can be difficult to find just seeds from any seller, and may belong to a subspecies that is hard to obtain online, or it may be uncommon in the wild, or only sold from where it is endemic. Seldom available, but still may be found on foreign seller websites, or be owned by a certain grower who may be willing to sell if lucky. Still can be seen on grower wishlists, just not as commonly.
[VERY HARD] - Never or almost impossible to find, possibly because the plant itself is very rare, was recently discovered, is very hard to find in the wild (such as being endemic to small region very deep in a mountainous rain forest). Could be a subspecies of a more localized or rarer species, meaning that it would probably be easier to get if in the native country, but outside of or from North America might be impossible.
[N/A] - Unknown, with no seeds or plants available online, and little info is known on the plant. Often a minor species that has little documentation or even specimens that have been obtained yet to be available anywhere. Generally, these kinds are have never even been heard of before, especially not in cultivation. These species may not have photos available because there is no information to be found on them apart from the name.
Growing Difficulty Guide:
[INVASIVE] - Same as below, but may often come as a hitchhiker species, seeming to find its way into anywhere and everywhere in plant pots.
[EASY] - Virtually indestructible, grows really anywhere, highly tolerant of varied climates from cold and dry to as hot and humid as a sauna. Good growers that will expand quickly and seem to last forever. Can and will take a lot of abuse but still pull through.
[MED] - Little more tricky to take care of, but still quite tolerant. May be picky about humidity or temperature, and much less tolerant of mold or algae than easier plants, but given good enough conditions will thrive. May go through dormancy and be quite vulnerable during this time. May be easier to grow from tubers, cuttings or gemmae rather than seeds.
[HARD] - VERY fickle plants that may die off from things as little as fluctuations in humidity, light, temperature, algae or mold growth. Not often recommended to let flower because they are so delicate. Difficult to grow unless given extremely specific conditions that closely mimic their natural environment. Often rare and hard to reproduce, and is easier to obtain through tubers, TC, or other forms of propagation rather than seeds, which may have low germination rates.
[?] - Unknown, because it is so rare in cultivation.
Root-Growing Drosera & Natural Hybrids
Drosera acaulis (Close relative of D.trinervia)
Typical Leaves:
Flower:
Growing Difficulty: [MED] (based off info on the closely related and more common D. trinervia)
Dormancy: Yes (Summer)
Native to: South Africa
Attainability (US/CAN): [VERY HARD] (Rare and endemic to remote location)
Attainability (EU): [VERY HARD]
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosera_acaulis
More Pics: http://cpphotofinder.com/drosera-acaulis-155.html
More Info: http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/148367-Drosera-acaulis
https://www.ispotnature.org/species-dic ... %20acaulis
http://www.omnisterra.com/botany/cp/pic ... #D.acaulis
Video: N/A
Drosera adelae (Lance-Leaved Sundew)
Typical Leaves:
Flower: (comes in various different colors)
Growing Difficulty: [EASY]
Dormancy: No
Native to: Australia
Attainability (US/CAN): [EASY] (Common in TC)
Attainability (EU): [EASY]
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosera_adelae
More Pics: http://cpphotofinder.com/drosera-adelae-14.html
More Info: http://www.growsundews.com/sundews/adelae.html
http://ngcarnivorousplants.blogspot.ca/ ... guide.html
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnUACJLMwSo
Drosera admirabilis
Typical Leaves:
Flower:
Growing Difficulty: [EASY]
Dormancy: No
Native to: South Africa
Attainability (US/CAN): [EASY]
Attainability (EU): [EASY]
Wiki: N/A
More Pics: http://cpphotofinder.com/drosera-admirabilis-474.html
More Info: http://www.growsundews.com/sundews/Dros ... bilis.html
http://www.karnivores.com/en/carnivorou ... dmirabilis
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fum5GRiHIuw
Drosera affinis
Typical Leaves:
Flower: (this was the only picture I could find, for some reason)
Growing Difficulty: [EASY]
Dormancy: No
Native to: South Africa
Attainability (US/CAN): [EASY]
Attainability (EU): [EASY]
Wiki: N/A
More Pics: http://cpphotofinder.com/drosera-affinis-156.html
More Info: http://www.growsundews.com/sundews/Drosera_affinis.html
http://naturewatch.org.nz/taxa/148368-Drosera-affinis
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz2ttdJHWUc
Drosera afra (Close relative of D. trivernia)
Typical Leaves:
Flower:
Growing Difficulty: [MED]
Dormancy: Yes (Summer)
Native to: South Africa
Attainability (US/CAN): [HARD]
Attainability (EU): [INTERMEDIATE]
Wiki: (Here is the Romanian version translated: ) https://translate.google.ca/translate?h ... rev=search
More Pics: http://cpphotofinder.com/drosera-afra-157.html
http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index.ph ... -from-saf/
http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index.ph ... uthafrica/
http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index.ph ... rvia-afra/
More Info:
http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index.ph ... rvia-afra/
Video: N/A
Drosera alba (Close relative of D. cistiflora)
Typical Leaves:
Flower:
Growing Difficulty: [MED]
Dormancy: Yes (Summer)
Native to: South Africa
Attainability (US/CAN): [HARD]
Attainability (EU): [INTERMEDIATE]
Wiki: N/A (Here's the Swedish Wikipedia version, translated: ) https://translate.google.ca/translate?h ... rev=search
More Pics: http://cpphotofinder.com/drosera-alba-158.html
More Info: http://www.karnivores.com/en/carnivorou ... osera-alba
http://www.araflora.com/p871/sundew_drosera_alba
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsfnflFUidw
Drosera aliciae (The Alice Sundew)
Typical Leaves:
Flower:
Growing Difficulty: [EASY]
Dormancy: No
Native to: South Africa
Attainability (US/CAN): [EASY]
Attainability (EU): [EASY]
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosera_aliciae
More Pics: http://cpphotofinder.com/drosera-aliciae-552.html
More Info: http://www.growsundews.com/sundews/aliciae.html
http://www.karnivores.com/en/carnivorou ... ra-aliciae
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU-pwxUbicg
Drosera amazonica (The Amazon Sundew)
Typical Leaves:
Flower:
Growing Difficulty: [MED]
Dormancy: Unlikely
Native to: Brazil
Attainability (US/CAN): [VERY HARD]
Attainability (EU): [VERY HARD]
Wiki: (Here is the German version translated: ) https://translate.google.ca/translate?h ... rev=search
More Pics: http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index.ph ... he-amazon/
More Info: http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index.ph ... amazonica/
http://www.botanik.biologie.uni-muenche ... dified.pdf
Video: N/A
Drosera
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DroseraDrosera Hybrids
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Pygmy Drosera
Drosera allantostigma (Previously named Drosera nitidula ssp. allantostigma)
Typical Leaves:
Flower:
Growing Difficulty: [EASY]
Dormancy: Yes (Summer)
Native to: Australia
Attainability (US/CAN): [HARD]
Attainability (EU): [INTERMEDIATE]
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosera_allantostigma
More Pics: http://cpphotofinder.com/drosera-allantostigma-46.html
More Info: http://www.sundews-etc.com/2014/04/plan ... tigma.html
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/http://id ... ni/2892000
https://translate.google.ca/translate?h ... rev=search
Video: https://youtu.be/Akn_Ss5mjks?t=51s
Drosera androsacea
Typical Leaves:
Flower:
Growing Difficulty: [MED-HARD]
Dormancy: Yes (Summer)
Native to: Australia
Attainability (US/CAN): [INTERMEDIATE-HARD]
Attainability (EU): [INTERMEDIATE-HARD]
Wiki: (Here is the Swedish version translated) : https://translate.google.ca/translate?h ... rev=search
More Pics: http://www.pygmy-drosera.net/androsacea/androsacea.html
http://cpphotofinder.com/drosera-androsacea-3.html
More Info:
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DroseraTuberous Drosera
Typical Leaves:
Flower:
Growing Difficulty: []
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Attainability (US/CAN): []
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Drosera aberrans (D. whittakeri ssp. aberrans)
Typical Leaves:
Flower:
Growing Difficulty: [MED]
Dormancy: Yes (Summer)
Native to: Australia
Attainability (US/CAN): [VERY HARD] (As with many Tuberous Sundews)
Attainability (EU): [HARD-VERY HARD]
Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosera_aberrans
More Pics: http://cpphotofinder.com/drosera-aberrans-846.html
More Info: http://www.vcps.org/vicdrosera.html
http://www.tuberous-drosera.net/aberrans.htm
Video: https://youtu.be/jxgzf54r3XM?t=12s
Drosera andersoniana (The Sturdy Sundew)
Typical Leaves:
(Stem forming)
Flower: (Can be white or pink)
Growing Difficulty: [MED-HARD]
Dormancy: Yes (Summer)
Native to: Australia
Attainability (US/CAN): [VERY HARD]
Attainability (EU): [VERY HARD]
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosera_andersoniana
More Pics: http://www.growsundews.com/sundews/Tube ... index.html
http://cpphotofinder.com/drosera-andersoniana-159.html
More Info: http://www.tuberous-drosera.net/andersoniana.htm
Video: N/A
Drosera
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Growing Difficulty: []
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Sources
While I can't give credit to or link every single source I used for this enormous list, both for copyright reasons and just the general usefulness of having publicly available information and pictures, I would like to mention that http://www.growsundews.com, Wikipedia, http://www.tuberous-drosera.net, http://cpphotofinder.com by the wonderful ICPS, and (surprisingly) https://www.ispotnature.org have provided much of the useful information needed to make this list. Wikipedia, while it is missing a LOT of pages on Sundew species, has a complete list of them, which I used as the framework for the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Drosera_species . http://www.growsundews.com gives plenty of helpful and informative advice on many of these plants and how to grow them, as well as provides accurately labelled, high quality photos of many species, all of which are publicly visible. http://www.tuberous-drosera.net helped me find information on many of the rarer and lesser-know species of Australia, along with properly identified pictures. http://cpphotofinder.com has always been one of my favourite sources for pictures of any carnivorous plants, as it provides a large database of accurately-labelled images of nearly every form, variety, cultivar, hybrid, and species of CPs. https://www.ispotnature.org turned out to be especially useful when looking for images on species such as D. acaulis, as it provides user-submitted photos of some very rare plants that I couldn't find elsewhere (not even on http://cpphotofinder.com !).