Drosera madagascariensis "Botswana" Potted
In the mid-1990s, an actor who starred in the Power Rangers TV show and movies, Ed Neil, visited the nursery several times. On one visit he gave us some leaves cut from a sundew he found a few days before in a drainage ditch near the Botswana airport in Africa, carefully packed in wet paper towels in a zip lock bag. We grew this plant from the leaf cuttings.
One of our favorites, it prefers tropical warm conditions but will die back and go dormant if temperatures drop into the 40s F. The plant has spoon shaped leaves at the end of long petioles and gradually forms a scrambling stem of several inches. New shoots appear from the base of the stem as the stems die away with age. The flowers produced at the ends of the stem self pollinate and produce copious seed. In terrariums the plant grows continuously, and if it turns brown after a winter chill, even the "dead" stems produce new, branching offshoots. A fascinating and attractive species, perfect for terrariums.
These plants are about 1-2” tall.
Care Instructions
Sun: Full sun indoors or 6-10 inches from the lights in a terrarium
Water: Always sitting in at least two inches of distilled or purified water
Temperature: 40 degrees - 90 degrees
Dormancy: none needed