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Drosera rosulata

D. rosulata is a rosetted species and the typical form can reach up to 5 cm in diameter with 8 to 10 leaves forming a basal rosette. Some large forms may reach up to 9 cm in diameter.
The leaves turn deep maroon with age. The middle of the leaf is depressed along its length which differentiates Drosera rosulata from similar species like Drosera bulbosa, Drosera tubaestylis and Drosera orbiculata.
Flowers are produced at the centre of the rosette on single scapes 1-2 cm long with up to 12 scapes per plant. The crown-like arrangement of the styles in Drosera rosulata differentiates this species from Drosera bulbosa.
The tubers are pale orange.


Tubers of the type form


Plants in the middle of the growing season



In summer 2014 one pot with D. rosulata plants continued to grow. By end of october plants in 3 stages were growing side by side: old plant being replaced by a new shoot (upper left), plant in the middle of the growing season (upper right), newly emerging plants (lower left). At the same time, in the other D. rosulata pots the first plants started to appear.


Seedling. In this case the seeds germinated 2-3 years after sowing.

D. aff. rosulata

This form was described by Allen Lowrie as "at first multi-flowered, flowers white, followed by beautiful red petiolate obovate-elliptic leaved rosettes to 5 cm Ø".


Tubers of this form



Non-flowering plant. Please check the picture with the newly forming leaf carefully. Do you see that the outer rim of tentacles are actuelly non-carnivorous and bent downwards?


Two macro-shots of the leaf rim





Flowering plant.


In the 2014/2015 season all my four plants developed at least one second rosette during the season. Most of these also produced flowers. Same procedure in 2015/2016. Suddenly I found a flower at a plant where I did not expect any, just to find that a new plant is emerging underneath.

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