Closer view:
I spent a bit of time composing this close view of a leaf. There wasn't any point in getting an even closer view because those long,
terminal tentacles would have been cropped. The leaf has been eating well. I wonder if those little buglets were
originally caught on the leaf where they lay, or if they were transported to the lamina by the long, flexing tentacles?
There weren't very many of these plants in the little colony, so I looked
at what Beth was doing. She had become
mesmerized by a brightly colored (noncarnivorous) Anigozanthus plant nearby, which
was gyrating wildly in the early morning wind.
Photographing it was sheer frustration and madness, so I let her spar with it alone. In the meantime, I took another look at
some lesser quality Drosera scorpioides which were out of the wind:
A plant that has been eating very heavily,
A plant with disturbed tentacles that looks almost like it is dancing, and
A plant clearly focusing all its energy on flower production.
