Drosera admirabilis

[strath76]

Just thought I would share a few pics of the D. admirabilis that I picked up a while ago. It has been flowering for about a month now. Like a lot of Drosera's the flowers close up each night and only open when there is sufficient light. Cheers.

[David]

Nice healthy plants and the flowers look like Byblis flowers.

[kentosaurs]

Hi strath

Wow a sudden burst of pictures Keep em coming :D Anyways agreed with david looks like byblis flowers.

Ken

[plantlover]

I looked at those pictures and I realized instantly that.......my aliciae is actually admirabilis!!! The leaves and flower looks 100% like mine. The flowers are quite large, yje largest in my collection of drosera.

[sundewman]

I can't be 100% certain about this, but your D. admirabilis looks a lot like D. aliciae to me...

[Khoas]

The plants I call admirabilis are much smaller only 2cm in diameter. It does look similar to aliciae in been a rosette species with wedge shaped leaves. It only flowers in spring unlike aliciae which will, sometimes, flowers in summer.

[strath76]

Both admirabilis and aliciae are very similar. Generally admirabilis is a smaller plant than aliciae. The source of this plant is very sound so I am confident that it is admirabilis.

[Sean]

It is definitely a form of D. admirabilis. The Palmiet River form is the closest of the forms to D. aliciae but the shape of the leaves (they are not cuneate as in D. aliciae- ie- the tips are rounded rather than blunt) are different. Most importantly, the flowerparts, or more particularly the stamens are completely different. The flowers are also spaced much further apart and the flowers themselves much larger.

Khoas, the form you speak of is the "small" form that has rosettes usually not bigger than an inch in diameter. The tips of the leaves become quite reddened in strong light and the flowers are much darker- the parts of the flowers however are the same as the Palmiet River form. In nature, each of these grow very close to populations of D. aliciae.