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Sundew (or Drosera) is a beautiful carnivorous plant. This image is an extreme macro shot of the sticky tentacles of this plant. As soon as an insect hits the flower, the tentacles will fold themselves around the poor beastt and it will be digested alive by the enzymes present in the sticky fluid droplets.

The carnivorous pygmy sundew Drosera pulchella is endemic to the south-western part of Western Australia, where it often grows in large colonies of plants.

One of the plants of wet moorland, moist streambanks and boggy places, the Sundew is an insectivorous plant which derives its nourishment by trapping flies and then digesting them. Oblong-leaved Sundew is less common than Round-leaved Sundew but is similar in having hairs covering its leaves, each hair ending in a sticky blob which glues the insect to the leaf irrevocably.

Carnivorous sundews are widespread on the table-top mountains of the Guiana highlands.

Closeup of a red, insectivorous sundew leaf, Drosera rotundifolia, with glandular hairs, at Lake Solitude on Mt. Sunapee in Newbury, New Hampshire.

$Common Sundew is a low Perennial. Plants usually solitary. Leaves rounded, long-stalked, horizontal or ascending; stalks hairy. Flowers white, 5mm, from the centre of the leaf-rosette, much overtopping the leaves.\nHabitat: Wet heaths, moors and Sphagnum bogs, especially around margins of bog pools, on acid soils.\nFlowering Season: June-August.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe, except Spitsbergen.\n\nThis carnivorous Species is to found in the described Habitats in the Netherlands.$