Tree Form:
This is Drosera intermedia,
New Jersey style. Notice the really long internodes--this plant is
not at all satisfied to form a basal rosette. It reminded me of Drosera
madagascariensis and other stem-forming sundews. This is not an
etiolated plant, either. It was growing right on the edge of a sunny
lake. These plants do not seem to be growing in an area with fluctuating
water tables either--I really think this is a genetically fixed feature
of these plants. Compare the long internodes to the short internodes
of this plant from Florida
(in that photograph, D. intermedia is on the right--D.
capillaris is on the left).
By the way, field botanist Bill Olson was clever enough to be able to identify the Sphagnum
in this photograph as S. portoricense, a rare species. Wow, I cannot identify Sphagnum
in the field--Bill can do it from a photograph!
