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Sundew (or Drosera) is a beautiful carnivorous plant. This image is an extreme macro shot of the sticky tentacles of this plant. As soon as an insect hits the flower, the tentacles will fold themselves around the poor beastt and it will be digested alive by the enzymes present in the sticky fluid droplets.

Detail of carnivorous plant on a black background

Cape sundew (Drosera capensis) with visible sticky droplets used to capture insects

$Common Sundew is a low Perennial. Plants usually solitary. Leaves rounded, long-stalked, horizontal or ascending; stalks hairy. Flowers white, 5mm, from the centre of the leaf-rosette, much overtopping the leaves.\nHabitat: Wet heaths, moors and Sphagnum bogs, especially around margins of bog pools, on acid soils.\nFlowering Season: June-August.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe, except Spitsbergen.\n\nThis carnivorous Species is to found in the described Habitats in the Netherlands.$