World's Largest Drosera
Phill Mann
10/22/2001
The world’s largest Drosera
CPN Volume
30, No 3, 79
In September of 1999 whilst showing the world renown Drosera
expert Robert Gibson and keen CP photographer Tuan Nguyen, through some
selected sites of the South Coast of Western Australia, we came across a plant
of Drosera erythrogyna growing up the burnt remains of a Banksia
quercifolia. A fire had burnt this Cephalotus swamp the previous year
leaving only the dead trees standing. Taking the opportunity of the very open
growth for a change, this plant of Drosera erythrogyna had climbed to a
height of over 10 feet (3.1m). The single stem had branched about twelve times
and we estimated that there were over 1,000 leaves and 400 flowers on this
plant.
Below is a photograph of this plant with Robert Gibson indicating the
height.
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