Drosera planchonii
A tuberous climbing sundew from south-eastern Australia, formerly treated as Drosera macrantha subsp. planchonii. It sprouts from an underground tuber with the autumn rains, scrambles up through low shrubs and grasses on sticky, cupped leaves through winter and spring, then dies back to the tuber for the hot, dry summer. In cultivation it needs cool, bright winter growing conditions and a dry-ish summer rest.
Where it grows wild
A scrambling, tuberous perennial of open heath, heathy woodland and scrubby country, where its thin stems climb through surrounding shrubs and grasses to reach the light. Stems die back each summer and the plant survives underground as a tuber.
Few records carry an elevation. Wild records run from near sea level around Port Phillip Bay and the South Australian coast to the low ranges such as the Grampians and Mount Lofty Ranges, mostly below about 800 m.
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