Vorstman's Guideto the carnivorous plants

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Sundew family | Droseraceae

Zonnedauwfamilie | Droseráceas

Two genera in this guide, catching by movement in two very different ways. The sundews carry stalked glands with a droplet of glue in which prey sticks, after which the tentacles and sometimes the whole leaf bend around it. The Venus flytrap has turned that same leaf into a hinge with trigger hairs and snaps shut in a fraction of a second. Its closest relative is the waterwheel plant, which performs the same snap under water; as an aquatic it falls outside this guide.

Drosera 215 species

Dionaea 1 species