Venus Fly Trap

From time to time, for some reason, there seems to be a minor 'craze' for carnivorous plants that hits British garden centres, and for a while there'll be a slowly-declining stand set up somewhere near the checkouts, featuring Sarracineas (upright pitcher plants), Nepenthes (hanging pitcher plants), Droseras (sudews), Pinguiculas (butterworts) and of course that hoary old insect eating chestnut, the venus fly trap. Some of these plants are doomed from the start. Nepenthes hybrids are spectacular and will look good for about, at most a month, before the pitchers dry up and the plant, in the dry atmosphere of someone's house, beings to invest in leafy growth ...  Read the complete review

The venus flytrap ( dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous small herb plant that will feed on flies and other household insects, (Much better than sticky fly traps and neon lights in your kitchen), They eat their pray by producing a liquid that attracts the flies and insects to it, when the insect lands on the plant and comes into contact with one or more hairs twice in quick succession this indicates to the plant that the insect is alive and the trap closes, The venus flytrap is found in poor environments such as wet savannahs and bogs and when in a hope should be kept on a plate of water, venus flytraps should be fed from the bottom and are very ...  Read the complete review

If you are thinking of buying a Venus Fly Trap beware! You have to be prepared to lavish attention on it. If you don't give it exactly what it needs it will die. It won't adapt, or make do in the way some plants do. Treat it like any other ordinary houseplant and you will certainly murder it! Venus Fly Traps are a whole species of carnivorous plants. They come in many varieties. These plants are adapted to live where they can't get nutrients in the normal way from the soil. There are actually over 600 different kinds of meat eating plants and many of them can be grown as houseplants. So, how do you grow them? Well, it varies. Venus ...  Read the complete review

The Venus fly-trap (Dionea Muscipula) is definitely the most well know carnivorous plant that is commercially available in today’s world. HABITAT INFORMATION The Venus flytrap, like so many of the other carnivorous plants, is found mostly in or around peat bogs. Most carnivorous plants that grow in this type of habitat thus obtain plenty of sunlight, and lots of water. Because of the properties of the bogs however, there aren’t many nutrients in the soil, and so the plants evolved to obtain their nutrients from somewhere else. Their source of nutrients being the insects they catch. BACKGROUND INFORMATION The first plants ...  Read the complete review

i think this plant is truly spectacular and i have one in my house its so good because i sometimes get flies in my house and it gobbles them all up! and its very interesting to watch because the venus fly trap (Dionaea muscipula) in my opinion is one of the most ineresting plants because when a fly leands on its leaves (shown in picture) it hits one of those hairs the plant closes really fast trapping the fly and slowly digesting the fly using it acid! which is really cool for a plant you can buy them from nearly every garden centre i got mine for 4 pound but you can most likely get them cheaper the problem is that sometimes kids come and poke the venus fly trap and if ...  Read the complete review