This post’s Drosera species really “look the part” – as meat-eaters, who kill.
Plants in general – not just sundews and other carnivorous plants – are a deal less “peaceful” than many humans imagine.
Plants’ “race” for light, space, water and nutrients is not an “everybody wins something” event,
Time-lapse photography makes this reality more apparent.
The use of such techniques by Attenborough et al has made many more people understand that flora can be every bit as “competitive”/“lethal” as fauna.
With carnivorous plants, however, the reality can be perfectly clear even in a single, “still” image,
An even closer view makes that reality clearer still, as the next post will attempt to show…