Carnivorous Plants
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The Venus Fly trap is a unique carnivorous plant. It looks like a creature from an alien movie but don't let this plant scare you, it only munches on insects! With its leaves ending in little claw like hands, this plant closes the instant an insect lands on it.
The Venus Fly Trap originates from coastal bogs of North and South Carolina. They have adapted to low nutrient environments by using the insects they eat to give them the nutrients they need.
Substrate needed: The substrate needs to be nutrient poor, acidic and well draining. Typically a good blend is 1:1 sphagnum peat moss and perlite. This mimics the bogs they are from. Always use distilled water when watering your Venus Fly Trap.
As long as you keep up with the watering, let them take care of catching the flies!
Scientific Name: Dionaea muscipula
Common Name: Venus Fly Trap
Light Requirements: Bright indirect light, direct sun
Water: Use ONLY distilled, rain or reverse osmosis water. They grow in bogs so they like to have wet soil. Make sure the air flow is good. Be sure to take them out of their packaging as soon as you get it home.
Pet Safe: Yes
Care: Intermediate
A carnivorous plant with deep maroon pitchers. Native to Southeast Asia, this plant is so unique in the fact that they use they're pitcher leaves to catch their food. These pitchers lure, trap, and digest insects to supplement their nutrient intake in nutrient-poor soil. Since they are from a tropical climate, they do thrive with lots of moisture and humidity.
Scientific Name: Nepenthes
Common Name: Asian Pitcher Plant
Light: Bright indirect light
Watering: Use ONLY distilled, rain or reverse osmosis water. Keep evenly hydrated, likes being misted.
Growth: Slow growing, can take 5-10 years to mature.
Pet Safe: Yes
Care: Intermediate
The Cape Sundrew is a rosette-forming carnivorous herb in the flowering plant family Droseraceae. This interesting plant has a unique look. They're known for their long, strap-like leaves covered in glistening, sticky tentacles that trap and digest insects. They can then supplement nutrients that they aren't getting from the poor soil. The tentacles secrete a sugary mucilage that lures prey in such as gnats. The gnats get stuck in the sticky substance and the leaf slowly curls around the bug then digests it.
Native to the Cape region of South Africa where it grows in permanently wet, nutrient poor habitats.
Substrate for the Sundews: Use a nutrient poor, mineral free substrate that retains moisture but drains well. The mix is 1:1 using peat moss/ sphagnum moss and perlite. Keep consistently hydrated with distilled water only.
Scientific Name: Drosera capensis
Common Name: Cape Sundrew
Light: 6+ hours of direct sun daily
Watering: Keep consistently hydrated
Growth: 4-6 inches
Pet Safe: Yes
Care: Difficult