Here's a range of plants that will thrive in your terrarium or paludarium (part water). Most are small growing so they don't take over whilst others are creeping both on the floor of the terrarium and over branches, walls etc in the case of epiphytic plants. All of these plants are carnivorous plants and are easy to care for and thrive in high humidity.
The Utricularia (Bladderworts) will consume the nasties that can colonise the terrarium compost as they catch their prey underground, others like Nepenthes (Monkey Cups) and Heliamphora (Sun Pitcher) catch other insects that crawl in to their traps within the terrarium landscape
Strange Australian carnivorous plants with smallish jug shaped traps that sit on the surface. Produces different types of leaf depending on the season and make an excellent terrarium plant! Nice clusters of traps on young plants
Strange Australian carnivorous plants with smallish jug shaped traps that sit on the surface. Produces different types of leaf depending on the season and make an excellent terrarium plant! Nice clusters of traps on young plants. Larger plants in 12cm pots
Super compact plants with a tight rosette of paddle shaped leaves covered with sticky red tentacles This plant is also know as the Alice Sundew
Drosera paradoxa is a miniature growing sundew with rosettes of short thin stems tipped with a round disk of dark red sticky tentacles.
Heliamphora are a strange type of carnivorous plant that hasn't changed much since the dinosaurs! These plants are from Venezuala and like good but not direct sun, very special and a must for any collector. These are healthy well established plants that are pretty much mature
Nepenthes hybrid between Nepenthes rafflesiana x Nepenthes ampullaria with jug shaped cups that have a lovely pale green/yellow background and spotting/streaks in dark red
Utricularia alpina is despite it's name not a hardy plant! This large trapped plant comes from Brazil and Venezuela and has lovely green leaves to 8 inches and large 1 inch fat tubers, many of the tubers sit on the surface or just beneath it. It can be grown in pots or as in nature it can grow as...
Utricularia calycifida is a mat forming Venezuelan plant with medium sized leaves that a bit like spinach! They are a lovely green with burgundy veining and cary super pink/purple flowers on elegant stems above the plant. They seem to give off a sweet smell
Utricularia livida is a mat forming plant African plant with tiny leaves that look like tiny chickweed! Underground their bladders are catching creepy crawlies. These produce lovely small white and mauve flowers during the summer months
Utricularia longifolia is a large growing plant from Brazil, it has the longest leaves of the bladderworts (around 15 inches) and produces large 2 inch deep violet flowers. This is normally an epiphytic or lithophytic plant so can be mounted. Large plants
Utricularia sandersonii is a mat forming South African plant with tiny leaves that look like tiny chickweed! Underground their bladders are catching creepy crawlies. These produce lovely small white flowers with mauve and yellow markings during the summer months
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