Cook’s Carnivorous Plants (flytraps.com) presents our lovingly nurtured collection of sundews — temperate, subtropical, and pygmy — available to ship. Cook’s has been striving to provide the best in carnivorous plants and growing information since 1992, to help every carnivorous hobbyist grow their collection.

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Sundews (Drosera) are one of the most diverse variety of carnivorous plant with at least 194 species. While preferring hot, humid climates Sundews can be found primarily on every continent save Antartica. Named for their distinctive glistening drops of a thick, gluey ‘dew’ known as mucilage, sundews are both beautiful and deadly.

The many species of this carnivorous genera make for a great range of size and appearance as they have adapted to all across the globe; though most prevalent in Australia and South Africa, they have been documented in many hot, humid climates. It was in fact, experimentations with Drosera that helped Darwin first confirm carnivorous diet supplementation in plants.

The genus of Drosera can be divided into several growth habits including amongst others:

Temperate Sundew
Subtropical Sundew
Pygmy Sundew

Pygmy Sundew

Subtropical Sundew (8)

Temperate Sundew (2)

binata dichotoma giant

binata mixed varieties

capensis green

capensis typical

adelae

natalensis

nidiformis

rotundifolia

Sp. Pretty Rosette

tracyii