Flesh eating plant

Now that the peat bog is drying out a bit, several plants have started growing on top of the peat moss in the pools, as if it were firm ground.

One of them is the small, flesh-eating round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), ronde zonnedauw in Dutch:


Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/125s

Sundew catches all sorts of bugs with its sticky leaves, and then digests them.

There is also an even smaller species of sundew in the peat bog here, called oblong-leaved sundew (Drosera intermedia), kleine zonnedauw in Dutch. It grows on small open bits of soil between heather and grass, often on ground that has been churned up by animals:


Olympus Stylus 1s, 42mm, ISO200, f8, 1/160s

On your left side you see a few buds; sundew actually can flower when circumstances are good:


Olympus XZ-1, 28mm, ISO100, f8, 1/250s

Thanks for watching!

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