The members of the ABS are a great source of knowledge about our wonderful bush reserves.On a recent walk at Titirangi with ABS members I had my first sighting of Drosera auriculata the tiny insectiverous plant known as sundew.
On a walk in Torbay Heights Reserve on the North Shore this month we were fortunate to find some sundew in flower too. Sundew live on poorer soils where it supliments its nutrition by attracting small flies and insects to its sticky surface where it is able to gradually dissolve and absorb useful nutrients.
I used to find round-leaved sundew, Drosera rotundifolia on the heathland of Horsell Common near my home in the UK.