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Sundew (or Drosera) is a beautiful carnivorous plant. This image is an extreme macro shot of the sticky tentacles of this plant. As soon as an insect hits the flower, the tentacles will fold themselves around the poor beastt and it will be digested alive by the enzymes present in the sticky fluid droplets.

Drosera rotundifolia, the round-leaved sundew or common sundew, a carnivorous plant in marshland, nature, Czech republic

A vertical shot of drosera intermedia in a blurry background

One of the plants of wet moorland, moist streambanks and boggy places, the Sundew is an insectivorous plant which derives its nourishment by trapping flies and then digesting them. Oblong-leaved Sundew is less common than Round-leaved Sundew but is similar in having hairs covering its leaves, each hair ending in a sticky blob which glues the insect to the leaf irrevocably.

Round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) growing in moss on tranquil green background. Vegetation scene in nature of Europe. The Netherlands.

$Long Leaf Sundew, Drosera anglica, Ingot Island, Prince William Sound, Chugach National Forest, Alaska, Carniverous plant. Droseraceae.\$

$Common Sundew is a low Perennial. Plants usually solitary. Leaves rounded, long-stalked, horizontal or ascending; stalks hairy. Flowers white, 5mm, from the centre of the leaf-rosette, much overtopping the leaves.\nHabitat: Wet heaths, moors and Sphagnum bogs, especially around margins of bog pools, on acid soils.\nFlowering Season: June-August.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe, except Spitsbergen.\n\nThis carnivorous Species is to found in the described Habitats in the Netherlands.$