. Keywords Drosera spatulata, colchicine, tetraploid, micropropagation, MS media The genus Drosera (Droseraceae), commonly called sundew, is the largest group of carnivorous plants and consists of approximately170 species. Drosera spatulata Labill. is one of the most widespread sundews in nature. D. spatulata is a carnivorous species native to south-east Asia and Australia (Junipers et al., 1989). It is a rosette-forming spoon-leaved sundew. This species is widely variable, but generally plants are about 4 cm in diameter. Each leaf is attached to the central rosette by a narrow 8 mm long petiole that is only glandular on the upper half. Individual leaf laminae are typically 5 mm long and 4 mm wide. In early summer, plant