Drosera aliciae

Description

The Alice sundew, Drosera aliciae, is native to the Cape Province of South Africa. Like the Cape Sundew, Drosera capensis, it is an excellent beginner species that does well in a variety of household environments.

The three most important aspects of carnivorous plant care are light, soil, and water. Sundews do extremely well in bright, sunny windowsills, and even better outdoors in the summer. Sundews have adapted to low-nutrient, boggy environments, and most regular potting soil will kill them. We keep ours in a 50-50 ratio of unfertilized peat and perlite.

Carnivorous plants should be kept in a shallow tray of reverse osmosis, distilled, or rainwater at all times. Water that is too high in dissolved solids will eventually kill them as salts build up in the soil and burn the roots.