Flowers!

I brought Sammy into the living room for a little while a little while ago (Did you have fun parsing that?) because of the dreaded fungus gnats. After a little while, the spaces between the ants were covered in tiny little flies.

Sammy has since grown more tendrils, which is exciting, but even more exciting is that it sent a great big long, relatively thick shoot up and up, then grew some blobs on the end. The blobs could have turned into tendrils, like the others, but they didn’t: they turned into these delicate little flowers! So beautiful.

If I’d have got a Venus flytrap, I’d have to cut the flowers off because they weaken the plant, according to the care instructions I got. But Sammy is a sundew, so I can leave them be. I am thrilled Sammy has flowered!

The really long flower stem made me think: Sammy catches creepy-crawlies for food,* but catching its own pollinators would be foolish. Hence, Sammy’s flower stem is really long to keep the pollinators away from its sticky tendrils.


* Sammy also catches cat hairs, but, as cat servants owners will know, cat hairs get everywhere, so this is inevitable and unavoidable.