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Maybe its new. And i will see Colin's face on the internet and the headline is 'New Drosera Species Found'.

Well, already my face is all around the internet and some newspapers, but not for the droseras! I would have to do a complete characterization to get that, and still I don't have even a cultivar registered.

I would stick with my guess that it is Drosera brevifolia.

This is a widespread species and I've seen flowering specimins the size of my thumbnail.

Now I've noticed that even D. spatulata have those snap-tentacle type things, I'm fairly certain of my ID.

The seed capsules did not open as the photos on growdrosera.com, that is interesting, and the flowers were pink, don't have the photos, but normally brevifolia even though it is very similar in everything has mostly white flowers, doesn't it?

I think I got it. It is a drosera sessilifora. I am not 100% sur ebut as you are saing drosera sess is smaller and more compact than drosera burmannii, this is my best guess.

Leathal_Traps wrote:I think I got it. It is a drosera sessilifora. I am not 100% sur ebut as you are saing drosera sess is smaller and more compact than drosera burmannii, this is my best guess.

I guess you mean: d. sessilifolia
But thats what i guessed, untill i saw the last photo, snap tentacles are not as pronounced, so im quite unsure as well.

Look, it flowered again finally!

Pretty flowers, they do look like something i have, but it was sold to me as d. admirabilis, but looking up the pictures online, some look quite different, some look alike, but the plant you have does look like the one i got as well.



It had the same flowers, allthough i dont have pics from it,



here the same one is on the right side (as u can clearly see its not a x. snyderi).
Mine measure 2,5-4 cm in diameter.

yes, that plant on the right looks very similar to my plant, seems as if it would be mine in another stage it had!

Well, another remarkable thing i noticed with them is that some of them flower while bigger ones dont, and some do look more "red" than others, while all in the same pot.

Well, i was told it was a d. admirabilis, i could check my seller, and see what his source of the plants was?

Exactly, my plant changes colors all the time, when it was tiny it was kind of red, then it grew and became green with red tentacles, then almost green when it was at its biggest point, and finally again red now with the flowers as you may see.

Yes, please ask him, because D. admirabilis really looks different

I think the original plant is a Drosera dielsiana/natalensis.

Yes fattytuna, i think u might be right!

After looking things up i found this pic

Source: http://www.omnisterra.com/botany/cp/pic ... .htm#fig28

Then i harvested some seeds (from the single one flowering):

And these are the plants (and were transplanted 2 days ago, so they dont look to happy )

Exactly, that are seeds the same for my plant, same shape and all, I had seen that page some time ago, but I do not know much of botanic terminology, even less in english, so I could not get an answer from there.
And even so, D. admirabilis has a synonim to D. cuneifolia, which in the picture, #8 looks ver different

Now i know at least that 1 of my plants is a natalensis, am not certain about all of them as you can see on the picture (some do look different)