This often from schoolbooks known plant surprises if you see the plant for the first time: On photos often you see only a leaf catching a home fly. Surprisingly, the complete plant is quite small - a fully grown plant fits loosely in a hand. The catch leaf reach a diameter of almost 1.5 cm / 0.6 inches.
Next to the beautiful round leaves it is the special that this plant has its native country all over the world: It can be found in Europe to the USA and Canada as well as in Asia (China, Russia) and South Africa. So Drosera rotundifolia is perhaps your neighbour. The round leafed sundew is under conservation in Germany and unfortunately has become very rare in the meantime.
The plant isn't suitable as a pure house plant - the death here is guaranteed. For this the plant does very well in a garden bog. The roots don't achieve any particular depth unlike others carnivorous: being enough for the plant by 5 cm / 2 inches.
The flower stem is between 15 cm and 25 cm (6 - 10 inches) in height and carries 2-5 white flowers. Almost 1 mm long seeds are formed (end summer -- middle fall) much.
I had my first little plants in a Terrarium which stood in fine weather outside and was brought to a cool place in winter. Unfortunately, the plants haven't survived the winter:
Decimated heavily a mould attack still arrived (after a heavy aphid attack in summer) in winter.
The new little plants are year-roundly in a small bog bed outside now. A large mortar-bath which has found its place in a sunny place serves as a bog bed.
upper: goup of small plants in my terrarium.
upper: Drosera rotundifolia in my bog bed - fresh planted.
upper: Drosera rotundifolia in my bog bed - a half year later (2 pictures)
next pic: a bit unsharpen - the photo of the seeds
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