Drosera glanduligera snap-tentacles

The unique marginal tentacles of Drosera glanduligera respond quite rapid to mechanical stimulation. A snap is completed within less than 0.2 seconds, sensational for a sundew. For everybody who likes to learn more about Drosera snap-tentacles and the other sticky leaved carnivores we recommend the book "GLISTENING CARNIVORES" by Stewart McPherson.

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Education

Tags:

• Drosera
• glanduligera
• carnivorous plants
• Karnivoren

[silenceisgod]

When and how did you get this plant? I've been trying to germinate seeds for about three months now; no luck so far.

[shartmeyer]

@silenceisgod That is clear because the plant is an annual that grows during wintertime. Sow the seeds between June - early August on wet peat-sand mix, put the pot in full sunlight and heat. The seeds detect the change in temperature when the nights become colder (lower than 8-10 °C). After some cool nights - in our region that happens about mid October - the seeds start suddenly germinating. The seedlings need to be fed, without nutrition they will soon perish.

[vonsalow]

ohne musik wäre es 5x besser ;)

[shartmeyer]

Haha, nach dem Erscheinen der DVD wurde ich gebeten, den Soundtrack als Download auf die Homepage zu setzen, weil er so gut gefiel. Allerdings kamen auch gleichzeitig einige Kritiken wie "hirnzerstörend". Egal ob Hass oder Liebe, der Sound erregt offensichtlich sofort Aufmerksamkeit und erfüllt dadurch seinen Zweck bestens. Musik ist halt immer eine Sache des Geschmacks, ob nun Deiner oder unserer daneben liegt, lasse ich hier mal offen ;-)))).

[ArgumentEnder]

Is it only this type because I have a cape sundew, and they close slowly.

[shartmeyer]

Only Drosera glanduligera develops such rapid moving snap-tentacles. The plant was in 1844 obviously described from dried herbal specimens which don't move anymore (by Lehmann). So the mechanism remained unknown because the following CP-publications (i.e.: R. Erickson, A. Lowrie, A. Slack) did apparently just write down again the old text without observing the fascinating living plant. So it became a nine years old boy, Richard Davion from Adelaide (AUS), who found it out in the late 1980s.

[mandasity]

snap snap snap ten tackles

[Drosera5150]

Hello Siggi,

Excellent video and soundtrack! We look forward to many more.

Happy Growing,

Brian

[Drosera5150]

Hello Siggi,

Excellent video and soundtrack! We look forward to many more.

Happy Growing,

Brian

[chubby7570]

and globulites



[ArgumentEnder]

Thank god, I thought mine was dying.

[vonsalow]

@shartmeyer naja der geschmack ist unterschiedlich, aber ich sage mal dass es auch nicht sinnvoll ist sich in das bein zu schießen um aufmerksamkeit zu erregen^^

ich meine, die anderen videos zu diesem thema, die ruhiger sind, machen die sache spannender

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