Dionaea Muscipula

Plants should not be fertilized (so therefore should be separated from your other plants). The traps are covered inside by tiny hairs and a sticky sweet smelling substance attractive to insects.

These plants obtain some nutrients by trapping and digesting various invertebrates. But carnivorous plants absorb nitrogen from their animal prey through their leaves specially modified as traps.Nature provides this remarkable plant with "traps" to lure...

Plants should not be fertilized (so therefore should be separated from your other plants). Because insects are one of the most common prey items for most carnivorous plants, they are sometimes called insectivorous plants.

In fact, the Venus flytrap propagates by seed, which will germinate within two weeks of sowing indoors.Fill an 8-inch pot with organic potting soil. Venus flytrap seed germination requires temperatures between 75 and 85 degrees F.

The traps will grow up to 3/8 of an inch long, and the plant will grow leaves that are longer, thinner and more upright to raise the traps higher into the air to help them catch their prey.

When told not to touch a Venus flytrap, people often assume it's for their own safety. You won't even need a Band-Aid.Like all plants, Venus flytraps routinely shed old leaves and form new ones.

Tiny Sinningias,Mini African Violets and even a few carnivorous plants such as Venus Flytrap(Dionaea muscipula) and Pinguiculawould be good candidates for this container...Photo on the right courtesy of Va_Wild_Rose.The photo on the left is a yogurt container,...

The diabolical Cobra Plant. The insects are used to supplement the poor mineral nutrition that sundews are able to obtain from the soil they grow in. The plant hairs all point down making an escape impossible.

It then waits to see whether a struggling insect continues to stimulate the trigger hairs. You can manually pull a trap open, but doing so could harm the plant, and it will simply close the trap again in a few hours if it's able.Venus flytrap leaves grow...

In summer 2005 I won a scholarship to study English in Oxford. As part of my university studies, I completed a four months (from April 2003 to July 2003) of work experience at the Seminis Vegetable Seeds Research Station in Latina (Italy) (Reference:...