Carnivorous - Roridula gorgonias Seeds - Indigenous

Roridula gorgonias Seeds

CARNIVOROUS PLANT SEEDS

The genus Roridula includes two species which are both endemic to South Africa. Roridula gorgonis grows in the cooler and more humid coastal region near the city Hermanus and Roridula dentata is native to the hotter and more arid inland at the mountains of Clanwilliam and Tulbagh' Ceres. Both perenial plants can grow up to 120-150cm big bushes, Roridula dentata sometimes even bigger. The leafes are covered with numerous sticky hairs, which have different lenght. The glue is completly different from carnivorous plants like Drosera, Byblis or Drosophyllum and much more efficient. It cannot be washed away by rain and even dried leafes remain sticky. Roridula (especially Roridula dentata with its more branched leafes) can catch numerous insects and is occasionally even able to trap big prey like wasps or bees.