Sundew rotundifolia
One of the few carnivorous plants found in our woods. It grows in peat bogs and damp sandy places among mosses in the European part of the country except the far north, the Caucasus, Siberia and the Far East. This is a small nondescript perennial herb with white flowers, which open only for 2-3 hours and only on sunny days. Rosette leaves covered with bright red cilia, at the end of that shine drops, and it seems that the whole plant is covered with water, and the name of this plant. The leaves are specially adapted for catching insects. Referring to droplets of mucus, insect sticks to it, is captured sensitive hairs, and then digested by enzymes located in the mucus. Due to animal food plant is provided with mineral salts and therefore can grow in arid areas. Because of the meager food sundew grows very slowly and has smaller dimensions, lives for decades.
A man walked past this unprepossessing plant, without noticing it, and only Darwin was first established that the sundew is capable of digesting protein foods as well as the animal's stomach. It is called by the people "sunny dew", "dew grass", "killing flies." Described by physicians of the Renaissance.
the north of sundew leaves are consumed to produce milk cheese with the original taste and smell. Due to the small size of workpiece is unprofitable, is mainly used only in folk medicine and homeopathy.
ancient medicinal plant. Above-ground part is used in diseases of the respiratory system. Before the advent of antibiotic drugs sundew used for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis and whooping cough. The plant has an antibacterial effect. Well-known antispasmodic, disinfectant properties, which are assessed in bronchial asthma, atherosclerosis. Abroad extensively sundew used, manufacturing drugs in his time "drozerin", "drozdan (particularly in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia).
in folk cosmetics, juice, herbs sundew, dissolving the organic substance used as a means of removing warts, corns.
sundew can be propagated by seeds, which ripen in September.