Tuberous Drosera photo thread

Has anyone elces Drosera stolonifera (subspecie(s)) taken their sweet time emerging from dormancy? I have just noticed mine (stolonifera ssp. porrecta, see first pictures) has just emerged from dormancy, thank God because I was starting to get worried!.

I hope you don't mind me joining this thread.
Two weeks ago another Drosera worshiper and myself managed a quick 1500km trip in two and a half days out through the eastern wheatbelt down to the mid south coast and back.
First stop was to try and pin point D. browniana as it was a long time since seeing this in the wild. Unfortunately it was so dry that we never found any. Next stop was east of Hyden for the D. (stolonifera) rupicola. Here we found the two colour forms growing side by side.


Further south on the fringe of a salt lake was D. zigzagia (definitely nopt my favourite named Drosera) Notice the soil, bright white silica sand.

Another 20kms south we found the D. graniticola growing thickly along side a granite outcrop.

They formed large clumps among the grasses

Then to one of the many old river beds areas where D. zonaria grew in the same type of white silica sands, often covered by the drifting sand


A few plants grew out in the open and the colours were dazzling.

Not far away I found an area where there were tiny Drosera that had just emerged. I thought they were D. zigzagia until I found the tiny rosette buried at the base of each plant. D. salina were prolific in this small area.

On to the Fitzgerald National Park where in 1989 I discovered the beautiful flat D. prostratoscarposa. The area was burnt about 10 years ago and is now starting to get overgrown. The many plants were scattered up the slopes among the granite soils. The expired scape being forced into the ground to cover the seed set.



Along the edge of a creek growing in the moss of a granite outcrop was D. lowriei, the type form.

Fitzgerald NP has an amazing diverse flora. One of the eye catching is this Darwinia. The bell flowers are all along the road in one section.

A long drive and we were in the Stirling National Park to check out a new pygmy Drosera when we came across Utric menziesii in bud.

The new pygmy.

Other Drosera we saw on this trip were D. macrantha rock form, glanduligera, bulbosa ssp bulbosa, rosulata, peltata WA form, subhirtella ssp moorei, imbricata, an unidentified pygmy, echinoblasta, erythrorhiza ssp collina, erythrorhiza ssp erythrorhiza, echinoblasta, platystigma, platypoda, purpurescens, silvicola and mannii
Cheers

Beautiful shots picro!!!

erythrogyne, gigantea (Geniculata,gigantea) and myriantha (spell)

It's 6:30, to early for my brain to work properly. ;D

Picro,

Thanks! Recieving praise from you on the state of my plants is a great compliment to me.

I can think of nothing I would like better than to be able to go on walkabout with you and have the opportunity to see these plants in habitat (not to mentione the herps, I still recall the pic of that beautiful black head you sent me.) The only thing stopping me is the fact that I don't have the funds and do not imagine I will for some time (the bane of being a PhD student, they don't pay you well at all.) However, with the end of my PhD studies in sight I am looking for jobs. So if you know of any firms down there looking for a microbiologist/geneticist/molecular biologist then let me know as I am more than happy to relocate.

Someday I will get down there again I am sure. And when I do I will be sure to try and arrange something with you if possible.

Nice, is that utriculatia tenella in the back ground there?. What is Drosera myriantha like to grow? Another on my list since obtaining lowrie 1 and 2.