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Midwinter on the Fleurieu’s southern edge: “fierce” plants on forest floor

 

This post’s Drosera species really “look the part” – as meat-eaters, who kill.

Plants in general – not just sundews and other carnivorous plants – are a deal less “peaceful” than many humans imagine.

Plants’ “race” for light, space, water and nutrients is not an “everybody wins something” event,

Time-lapse photography makes this reality more apparent.

The use of such techniques by Attenborough et al has made many more people understand that flora can be every bit as “competitive”/“lethal” as fauna.

With carnivorous plants, however, the reality can be perfectly clear even in a single, “still” image,

 

Carnivores & fallen leaves on Stringybark forest floor, Deep Creek NP, 12. 32 pm, 20 June 2023. Photos ©️ Doug Spencer.

 

 

An even closer view makes that reality clearer still, as the next post will attempt to show…

Published in Australia (not WA) nature and travel photographs