Free post 3: The Drosera uniflora (Willd)

In field trip we went to the mountain chain of the coast 2000 msnm in the region of The Lagos, where there were forests of Fitzroya cupressoides that were burned, proving to be the teachers since I concern the ecosystem the natural fire for high temperatures, in addition explaining to us the type of soil that existed in the forest, which they were poor peat-bogs in nitrogen with an acid PH, which is propitious for the growth of a very interesting plant called Drosera uniflora (Willd), This one is carnivorous plant, also called insectivorous plant, is a plant that obtains part of his nutritional needs by means of the capture and the consumption of insects by means of glands located in his leaves, which secrete a sticky slime in the ends, these are used to capture and to retain dams of insects, of which the plant obtains the nutrients that it cannot obtain in sufficient quantities of the soil.

This type of plant is everlasting, wants to say that he does not vote for his leaves in autumn, has a flower of white color, with a size of 3 cm, the roots of this plant must be inside a course of permanent water as edges of lakes, marshes, between others, with a condition of light 100 % exposed to the Sun without any protection, growing in flat or lateral parts of north exhibition.

Beads of Mucilage sticky of Drosera Uniflora (Willd)