Drosera flowers/pollination/hybrid questions

Yes, pollination will set seeds between closely related species. Pygmies are specialized dews from Australia while Cape sundews are from South Africa. A lot of time, distance and specialization has separated the species so fertile seeds would be very unlikely.
 
It is deceiving because all dews are in the genus Drosera. In other families such as in the Cactaceae family, you would expect you could hybridize within a genus, such as Ariocarpus. I think for hybridizing dews you should consider within a subgenus, such as petiollaris, pygmies, tuberous, etc.
 
yoHello, it is not possible because pygmy sundews do not self-pollinate and you can only get seeds if you cross two pygmies but you need them to be different, two clones per gem will not work either,
 
Guys I need your help,

I have my drosera binata next to my venus fly trap

And it seems that the venus fly trap polinized the drosera .... Is that possible?

I have a new plant next to the drosera, but i dont know what it is....

I appreciate your input....
 

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If only they could pollinate across species! The hybridizations could be endless… and highly entertaining ;) like pitcher plants with sticky sundew hairs all over the outside of the tubes, or cobra lillies with vft traps instead of tongues…
 
Lloyd Gordon said:
They are too distant to hybridize. If that dew came from "nowhere", maybe it's a tokaiensis, they can reproduce from a microscopic speck. Or another dew from a seed.
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Thanks Lloyd, it indeed looks like a tokaiensis, it started growing maybe one month ago and I have had the pot for one year....

Is it possible that the tokaiennsis seeds were dormant for that long?
 
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