The old-growth forest’s floor in Deep Creek Conservation Park is almost certainly South Australia’s finest winter location for fungi-fanciers.
It is also spectacularly well-endowed with successful predators who lack legs and teeth.
They can photosynthesise…
…Antarctica excepted, all continents are home to at least some species of the large, insect-eating plant genus Drosera, commonly known as “sundews”.
More than half of them call Australia home, exclusively.
Southwest WA is by far the world’s most Drosera-species-rich region, but even to this WA resident’s eyes, Deep Creek Conservation Park is conspicuously affluent, sundew-wise…as a future post will further illustrate.
Photo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken on 20 June 2023 in Deep Creek Conservation Park.