Scientific Name: Drosera binata
Common Name: forked sundew
Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots
Family: Droseraceae
Form Description: Perennial herb with fibrous roots and underground runners. Leaves forked once or twice.
Flowers: Main flower stalk long, bearing clusters of white sweetly scented flowers, 2cm across.
Fruit: Capsule
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Habitat Notes
Occasional in bogs and soaks in wet heaths, sea level to alpine and sub-alpine.
Site Tolerance
Exposed, Waterlogged
Soil Tolerance
Nutrient-poor, Poorly-drained, Sandy
Propagation Calendar
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Cutting Month
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Propagation Method
Seed Information
Seed Collection
Seed is black when ripe.
Seed Treatment Method
Standard Scatter seed thinly on to damp potting mix. Hold seed in place by covering with more potting mix to approximately the depth of the seed size.
Seed Treatment Notes
Surface sow the fine dust-like seed in autumn. Capillary watering is recommended. The tiny seedlings may be susceptible to weed competition.
Cutting & Division Information
From leaf cuttings: leaves are pinned down on moist bed of sphagnum moss and plantlets are formed at leaf divisions. Or propagate from stem cuttings. This is the easiest of the Droseras.