Byblis gigantea
The rainbow plant of the Perth region: a woody-rooted perennial carnivore with glandular sticky leaves, from seasonally wet sandy-peat swamps that bake dry in summer. Grow it in full sun in a deep, very sandy pot, wet in winter and spring and drier through summer; it resprouts from the rootstock and its seed germinates best after a smoke or fire treatment.
Where it grows wild
Seasonally wet swamp margins and damp sandy-peat flats in low Leptospermum and restiad shrubland; it resprouts from a woody rootstock after fire.
Few elevation records; the measured sites are on the coastal plain and Darling Range at 9–287 m.
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