If you visit a Marshland here in Austria in early summer it might be possible that you find meat eating plants like the roundleaf sundew. It got quite seldom and can only be found in Marschlands and spots where there is very less nutrition in the soil. This is why this plant has figured out another source of nutrition and this is insects that are digested on its leaves. The insects stick to the plant and are slowly digested there. This gives the plant enough nutrition to survive and so it can grow on very low nutritious soil. It is funny because usually it is the other way round, plants are eaten by insects or animals usually.
Very sad that I didn't had any macro lens with me when I visited the Marshland, only my old smartphone so I couldn't get close enough to the meat eating plants to get a really nice picture. I am planing to visit this spot again maybe this summer and then I plan to take a macro lens with me to get some more intersting and closeup pictures of this plant.
roundleaf sundew. Picture: Florian Glechner.
roundleaf sundew. Picture: Florian Glechner.
roundleaf sundew. Picture: Florian Glechner.
