Drosera affinis
A perennial sundew from the wet, seasonally dry savannas of south-central Africa. It forms a short stem up to about 10 cm tall, topped by erect, long-stalked, narrowly spoon-shaped leaves, and has pale pink to purple flowers. It grows in wet meadows, dambos, bogs and seeps that stay wet even in the dry season. Grow it like a sunny tropical bog plant, with a slightly cooler winter.
Where it grows wild
It grows in wet meadows, swamps and perennially wet places in seasonally dry savanna. Collectors describe it in dambos (grassy seasonal wetlands), bogs, marshy stream banks, the peat zone around source lakes, and a peat bank in the spray of a small waterfall. These are open, treeless wet grasslands.
Collected at about 1100 to 2200 m, mostly 1200 to 1600 m, on the plateaus of Angola, Zambia, southern Tanzania and Malawi. The highest records are from the Nyika Plateau at 2000 m and near Lubango in Angola at about 2180 m.
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