In 2007, I found out that Phnom Bokor also hosts several species of carnivorous plants including a magnificent population of crimson Drosera peltata.
I found many amazing plants during my 2007 trip in Cambodia but I think that little Drosera colony will stay as one of my dearest botanical memory. Some were literally growing on the rocks!
Unfortuanately, I returned on the Bokor in 2009 and I found out that this very sundew colony has been completely wiped out. The Cambodian government has leased the whole mountain (located in a national park!) for private investment. A lot of works are thus being undertaken.
I hope other colonies of this lovely Drosera peltata are growing somewhere else in the national park - which is likely- but this remains to be proved.




Drosera peltata growing in sympatry with Nepenthes bokorensis:
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