Propagation
Sow fresh seeds during spring and maintain a temperature of 10ş to 13ş C. (50ş to 55ş F).

Take root or leaf cuttings from spring to summer.

Note:
This cool climate Sundew produce wintering resting buds during autumn after the normal leaves die off. These are modified uncurled leaves, which are closely packed and overlapping. This allows the plant to tolerate the cold winters after which they uncurl and form new leaves.

Botanic information
Leaf: The leaves are rounded and depressed in the centre (orbicular-like) but with the flat petiole attached to the edge of the leaf blade this gives it a spathulate-like appearance. It is covered in reddish glands that secrete clear mucilage that glistens.

Flower: The small crateriform flowers are arranged in a one-sided terminal raceme that may be forked and is held above the foliage on a scape that is up to 150mm (6in) tall. The flowers only open for a short period of time in bright sunlight around midday from late spring to early summer.

Fruit: The tiny seeds are very viable and self sow readily. The seeds are viable but the plant may be reproduced vegetatively.


Note
The sticky glands at the end of the 'tentacle' contain a proteolytic enzyme and are arranged along the margins. They respond to stimuli folding inwards towards the centre of the leaf transporting the insect to the awaiting inner glands. The glands at the centre of the leaf respond more slowly.

The glands secrete mucilageto capture the insects they also secrete enzymessuch as acid phosphatase. Together they contain and dissolve the fleshy parts of the victims while rolling the leaf around them, which takes up to forty-eight hours to complete. This rolling action assists in the digestion of the prey but not its capture and protects the nutrient fluids from being washed away by rain.
These dissolved fluids are then absorbed by the plant as nutrients by means of tiny hairs on the leaf surface.

Large insects become entangled in the neighbour`s glands activating multiple attachments and securing the prey. This may involve more than one leaf but all work as a team.
Since each gland can only bend three times before it becomes redundant the leaf determinesthe required amount of glands to secure and digest the prey, normally according to size. The glands that have finished their task then return to their original position awaiting new victims.

The insects may be attracted by the colour, odour or the shiny mucilage. It is uncertain what it is the attraction but many insects attach themselves to the leaves.