This cacti is a slow growing perennial that inhabits a wide range of soil substrates and habitat types.

The additional mass of the soil substrate and retained water can require additional structural support.

The seed remains viable for about a week, but it germinates within 24 hours of deposition upon a moist soil substrate.

Ruiz also noted that these subspecies differed in their preference of soil substrate.

Once mating occurs, females use their ovipositor to lay eggs into a soil substrate.

There are also basalt flows which are the more fertile for the soil substrates.

Ideal habitat is steep but with a relatively soft soil substrate and grass for the creation of burrows.

In general, though, sundews require high environmental moisture content, usually in the form of a constantly moist or wet soil substrate.

In its spore-bearing stage, hyphae perfuse both above ground as aerial hyphae and in the soil substrate.

It does not take nearly as long for plant regeneration to occur because of the soil substrate already present.