Drosera esterhuyseniae (true species)
{Hermanus, South Africa}
Named after Elsie Esterhuysen (1912-2006), a Bolus Herbarium botanist who spent 60 years collecting in the Cape mountains.
It grows on the upper sandstone slopes around Franschhoek, Hermanus and the Kogelberg, in stony soils kept moist by rain and coastal mists rather than by streams or seepages. Through long dry spells the rosette can die back to its thickened rootstock and resprout when the rains return.
Flat rosettes 3 to 5 cm across, semi-erect spathulate leaves, yellow-green with red tentacles only on the distal half. Easily confused with D. aliciae.
