Pipewort

One day last week, I dropped in at a local botanical shop and found pipeworts (Eriocaulon parvum) in a big case filled with rain water. They were thriving like weeds in the case but not on sale. So the shop owner willingly let me pull some of them.

Bringing them home, I placed them in a pot. Hopefully I'll obtain lots of the seeds.

This pipeworts brooming a lot of small flowers in metallic grey.

The flower looks like a very tiny artichoke.

Then I dismantled one of the flowers. There are pale white seeds between petals.

The season for pygmy sundew's gemmae

Gemmae of pygmy sundews are now growing in my greenhouse. As we have long hot summer this year, the fruit season is a bit later than normal year.

Drosera gebsonii 

Drosera pedicellaris

Drosera walyunga

Drosera scorpioides 'Gidgegannup Form'

Drosera callisitos

This pygmy sundew is widely known as D. 'Toodyay Pink' in Japan but as Toodyay Pink is a synonym of D. spilos, which is another pygmy sundew, I must say this is a wrong name. After looking up some information on the Internet, I come to be almost convinced that this is a natural hybrid between D. nitidula and D. pygmaea. Anyway whatever this hybrid is, this is a nice pygmy sundew as the cultivation is quite easy and in autumn the whole plant beautifully coloures in vivid red.