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Title
<em>Drosophyllum lusitanicum</em>
Author
Sherwin Carlquist Santa Barbara California USA
Keywords
Drosophyllum lusitanicum
Description
Drosophyllum lusitanicum
The leaves of Drosophyllum lusitanicum are slender, like pine needles, and bear numerous hairs, each with a sticky droplet at the tip. This gives the plant the common name, "dewy pine." It looks somewhat like a sundew, but belongs in a family by itself. The leaves don't cur up, as do those of sundews, when an insect is caught on the sticky hairs. The leaf does gradually digest insects it catches, however. Drosophyllum is native to Portugal and southern Spain.
Publisher
Botanical Society of America
Additional data
copyright: Carlquist, BSA
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Botanical Name
<em>Drosophyllum lusitanicum</em>
Common Name
Dewy Pine or Portuguese Sundew
Location Country
Morocco, Portugal, Spain
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