Spedizione gratuita superando gli 80€
Free Shipping Above 150€
€15.00
Drosera gigantea is a carnivorous plant from Western Australia.
Drosera gigantea is an upright growth tuberous sundew
Like all tuberous it grows in winter (from September to May) and goes dormant in the hot and dry season, forming the tuber.
Out of stock
Drosera gigantea is a tuberous sundew on sale at diflora’s webshop: it’s an easy to grow erect form of sundew.
Diflora began the micropropagation of Drosera gigantea from sterile flask. Micropropagation allows the preservation of the mother plant genome avoiding contamination and genetic variation caused by traditional pollination followed by seeds production
Drosera gigantea grows indoors during the winter period (from November to March) under LED lights at 20°C. During the warm period (from April to October) the plant is grown outside in full sun.
Among the tuberous sundew with erect growth, it’s certainly the most impressive. The mature plant looks almost like a small shrub, more than a meter high. A must have!
As all sundews Drosera gigantea catch mainly small flying insects using sticky modified trichomes placed all over their leaves. These trichomes secrete droplets of water and polysaccharides attracting insects that are searching for sugary substances, like nectar.. As the unawares visitors fatally fly on those sweet and lethal leaves, they stay glued and unable to fly away. It is caused mainly by droplet viscosity. Slowly, the dense liquid of the nearby trichomes wrap the insect causing a macabre destiny for the unlucky victim: the tracheas, respiratory holes placed on the surface of the exoskeleton of insects, are obstructed causing their death by suffocation.
Western Australia
Shape: prostrate in early stage, then Erect
Leaf color: bronzed green
Trap color: bronzed green
Type: tuberous sundew with erect form, easy to grow.
Shipping: in pot 6.5cm ceramic color diameter.
For cultivation info visit the blog:
https://www.diflora.it/blog/
For more photos visit our facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/
Only logged in customers who have purchased this product may leave a review.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.