Adrian Slack is an author and authority on carnivorous plant

Carnivorous plant

Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods. Carnivorous plants appear adapted to grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic...

s. He is the author of two books: Carnivorous Plants (1979, 2005) and Insect-Eating Plants and How to Grow Them (1986, 2006).

Both of Adrian Slack's books are considered to have excellent cultivation information and are widely beloved in the carnivorous plant community. After a long time out of print, both of them have recently been reissued. Slack has developed hundreds of cultivar

Cultivar

A cultivar'Cultivar has two meanings as explained under Formal definition. When used in reference to a taxon, the word does not apply to an individual plant but to all those plants sharing the unique characteristics that define the cultivar. is a plant or group of plants selected for desirable...

s and many have been named after him. The sundew

Sundew

Drosera, commonly known as the sundews, comprise one of the largest genera of carnivorous plants, with at least 194 species. These members of the family Droseraceae lure, capture, and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surface. The insects are used to supplement...

 species Drosera slackii

Drosera slackii

Drosera slackii is a subtropical sundew native to South Africa. It forms rosettes that range from to two to four inches in diameter, and produces pink flowers. It is named after Adrian Slack....

was named in his honour.