D. burmannii green flowering

[Lauderdale]

9:30 am News years morning; I was making coffee when my girl friend walked in from my “grow area” and said that there was a very pretty flower sticking out of the cute little green thingy plant.  Sure ‘nuff…my D. burmannii green was in full flower.  What a wonderful New Years present.
I grabbed my camera and started taking pics.  Bright sun was causing the color to wash out and a slight onshore breeze was blowing just enough to set the flower bouncing around…focus was near impossible.  Twenty eight pics later…

 

 

Is this some kinda' pretty...or what?

You were right Tamlin...getting a pic of one of these is tougher than finding gold...but then...you have heard that story already.
What are the little white "spider" like things on the flower petals?

 

[PlantAKiss]

Beautiful photo Lauderdale! Love that.

 

[SnowyFalcon]

I'm going to hire you to go prospecting! Lucky find and great photo!

SF

 

[Tamlin Dawnstar]

Very nice photo! The spider things are the glasslike and highly divided styles of Drosera burmannii.

Here is a shot of Drosera sessilifolia, the South American counterpart to D. burmannii. I thought this would be a good time to compare the flowers. Like D. burmannii the flowers are rarely open.

 

[Joseph Clemens]

<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>These photos are like diamonds! Very nice, thanks for sharing them.

28 times is good shooting. I am lucky if I get one that nice after 100 shots, even when using a tripod.</span>

 

[Mark Wilson]

How long does it take for the seeds to mature? I'm itching to get some of those.I keep reading about how the retentive glands can close around prey in about 1 minute in my Savage Garden book and it makes me want them more and more

Mark W.

 

[Tamlin Dawnstar]

Mark,

I have some seed, and will post it to you.

 

[Christian Dietz]

Hi,

In my experience, it is not that rare to see an opened flower of D. burmannii. You have to look very early in the morning. D. burmannii needs lots of light and warmth to open a flower. They are opened for only a very short time. Here is a flower of one of my plants :

flower of Drosera burmannii

The petals in my plant are nearly transparent, while the ones in the pictures above are more white.

Christian