Hello,

for a change to all the Drosera, here is Roridula gorgonias from the Fernkloof Nature Reserve.

















Christian

Absolutely faboulous
One of the most beautiful CP in my opinion.
How tall are this plants? And how large are the leaf rosettes? They seem to be much bigger than in culture.

Regards

Aymeric

Beautiful pictures!!

"Gorgeous"

Greetings,
Jarkko

I like the shot of the symbiotic thing... or at least I think it is.

Nice pics!
I wonder how old these plants are.
My 6 month old seedlings are only about 10 cm tall.
R.dentata seems to grow a lot faster than R.gorgonias

[quote name='nadja77' date='14th November 2009 - 18:37 PM' post='257499']
Nice pics!
I wonder how old these plants are.
My 6 month old seedlings are only about 10 cm tall.

My own plant was less than that when I first got it two and half years ago. It's now 52 cm, not a slow grower in my own experience .

Hi,

to answer the question of the size, here is a pictures showing me amongst the plants


(picture taken by Carsten)

According to Frank Woodvine, it has not burend for a long time in Fernkloof, so the plants are most likely quite old. I am also not sure if R. gorgonias really needs a fire to germinate (at least in cultivation i germinated them without any treatment). There have been some small plants all around the large ones, which looked like seedlings.

Christian

That's good growing. It must be a nice plant! how long before you can expect your first flower?

All my seeds were smoke treated so I wouldn't know. But I have heard from others too that seeds germinated just fine without any form of treatment.

Hi Christian!

Very nice pictures of a beautiful plant! To see this plant in habitat is fantastic!!!
Seems that these R. gorgonias have the size of an adult men

Great pics!

Btw - i grow all my Roridulas also without any treatment. It´s not needful, i´ve almost 100% success!!!

Best regrads,
Thomas

[quote name='nadja77' date='15th November 2009 - 11:36 AM' post='257547']
That's good growing. It must be a nice plant! how long before you can expect your first flower?

It flowered a few months ago:-



Didn't get any seed though .

Beautiful plant! The flowers are bigger than I thought.

I don't know much about this but maybe they need to be hand pollinated?

Beautifull pictures! I have been there to, Fernkloof is realy a must for all plantlovers! Not only the carnivorous ones! I found that Roridula site with my binoculairs.

Alexander

Hi Christian,

good shots, are giant plants!



Me too.

If you don't mind me asking, :)
How tall are you, Christian?

Regards,

Vic2

Great pics! I'm really enjoying all your reports here! :)



I visited this site in 2006 and it looked very similar to your pics, it doesn't seem like there has been a fire there since. I was also there in 1997 and the whole area had been burned sometime in the previous year. R.gorgonias were only a few cm high. So it seems to me that this area hasn't burned since 1996/1997. Not sure if it is natural for so many years to pass between fires. The local rosetted Drosera all looked like they were longing for another burn...

Best Wishes,
Fernando Rivadavia

Wow, that makes Christian quite tiny!!

I've heard of small talk, but this is almost microscopic...


Let's rephrase my question, to dodge the barracking:

How tall were the wild Roridula??


V2 :)

In case it wasn't clear, R.gorgonias were only a few cm high in 1997! :)

Thanks Fernando. :)

But I was asking about the Roridula in Carsten's photo of Christian in post #15 in this thread.

They're clearly not a few centimetres high, unless Christian is from the legendary land of Lilliput... ;)

Cheers,

V2

Hi,

i have already been waiting for that question To answer you, the tallest plants have been about 1.50-1.60 meters tall

Christian

Danke endlich, Christian


Which proves two things:

(a) My plant - at 45cm tall - still has a long way to go;

(b) Christian is not from Lilliput - he is that giant invader, Gulliver!!

Vic2