Tall Sundew: Male Midge being Consumed

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Other Small Plants

Order:

Betalains (Caryophyllales)

Family:

Sundew (Droseraceae)

Species:

Tall Sundew (Drosera auriculata)

This Photo:

Male Midge being Consumed

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
A very strange, dainty, carnivorous plant.
When the plant dies, it goes completely black, as though poisoned.
What I used to call the "mouths" are actually it's leaves!

This species is classed as

VU (Vulnerable)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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