Flesh eating plant

Now that the peat bog is drying out a bit, several plants have started growing on top of the peat moss in the pools, as if it were firm ground.

One of them is the small, flesh-eating round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), ronde zonnedauw in Dutch:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/125s}

Sundew catches all sorts of bugs with its sticky leaves, and then digests them.

There is also an even smaller species of sundew in the peat bog here, called oblong-leaved sundew (Drosera intermedia), kleine zonnedauw in Dutch. It grows on small open bits of soil between heather and grass, often on ground that has been churned up by animals:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 42mm, ISO200, f8, 1/160s}

On your left side you see a few buds; sundew actually can flower when circumstances are good:

^{Olympus XZ-1, 28mm, ISO100, f8, 1/250s}

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