Drosera alba in southafrica

[Christian]

Hi,

The next plant I want to show you is Drosera alba. We only found them on the Gifberg, but it is also known from a location in the Cedar Mountains (but we couldn't find them there). We found two forms, that are somehow different.

The Gifberg:



There is no developed roads, that bring you up to the plateau. If i remember correctly, you have to drive about 30km on very sandy and stony runways like that:



If you make it up to the plateau without having a flat tyre (we had one in the middle of that road) you will find yourself on a flat plateau. From there on it is not really hard to find D. alba.

















Interestingly, we also found some plants, that had light pink flower and that were smaller than the other ones we found on the plateau.









I hope, you don't mind me opening one thread for each of the species we found!

regards,
Christian

[ICPS-bob]

A different thread for each species is good.

Marcy describes 3 forms of D. alba:
f. all red plant White flower
f. all red plant Pink flower
f. red and green marble pattern

www-cp.stech.co.jp/cp/dro/d-alba_e.html
www-cp.stech.co.jp/cp/article/SA-E/SPE/D-alba.html

Did you notice these differences? You mention that some plants had a light pink flower.

[Christian]

Hi Bob,

if you take a look at ninth and tenth picture, you can see the light pink flowers. These plants have also been smaller than all the others we found. We did not find the "green mable pattern" form. another reason to go there again!

Christian