Sundew Sentence Examples

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  • The hollows, rich in S. cuspidatum, are occasionally fringed by great sundew Drosera anglica.

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  • Thus Nepenthes secures a supply of nitrogenous food from the animal world in a manner somewhat similar to that adopted by the British sundew, butterwort, and other insectivorous plants.

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  • The locally scarce oblong leaved sundew occurs on the site.

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  • The North American Thread-leaved Sundew (D. filiformis) is a beautiful bog plant, with very long slender leaves covered with glandular hairs, the flowers purple-rose color, half an inch wide, and opening only in the sunshine.

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  • Less common specialities of these boggy areas include bog pimpernel, bog asphodel, round-leaved sundew and pale butterwort.

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  • Notable species include great sundew Drosera longifolia, S. pulchrum, S. imbricatum and S. fuscum.

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  • When an insect lands on a sundew, its legs and wings get caught on the sticky tipped tentacles like flies on fly paper.

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  • One sundew plant can catch as many as 2000 insects in one summer.

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  • Caroline in Sundew Linen is a gorgeous floral in variegated russets and green set against a tan background.

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  • Plants include mosses eg Sphagnum, cotton grass, purple moor grass, cranberry, marsh cinquefoil, marsh violet and round leaved sundew.

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  • Plants such as heathers and bog asphodels can live in the bogs, aswell as the carnivorous plant sundew, which catches small insects.

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  • Shallow pools have yet another sundew, along with spike rush, bog sedge, and the spectacular bogbean.

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  • Sundew (Drosera) - Most interesting little bog plants, of which all the hardy species but one are natives of Britain.

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  • This, like the excretion of the sundew and other insectivorous plants, contains a digestive ferment (or enzyme) which renders the nitrogenous substances of the body of the insect soluble, and capable of absorption by the leaf.

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