The two sides of the leaf are closing against each other ... In 1860, soon after he encountered his first carnivorous plant—the sundew Drosera—on an English heath, the author of Origin ...

The round-leaved sundew can therefore catch more insects ... tentacle has a sugary droplet on the end and is attached to a leaf, which curls up to capture prey. Dr Hatcher said his discovery ...

But the common sundew (Drosera glanduligera ... At just the right moment, the tentacles flick the prey into the plant’s glue-covered leaf trap, where it is digested to fuel the plant’s growth—an ...