Venus fly-trap
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 Venus Flytrap leaf
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| Dionaea muscipula Sol. ex Ellis (1768) |
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 Venus Flytrap distribution
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The Venus fly-trap (or Venus flytrap, Venus' flytrap, Venus's-flytrap) (Dionaea muscipula) is a plant that grows in the U.S. states of North and South Carolina. It is different from most plants because it does not just get food from the soil, it is also an insectivore (it can eat insects and other flying bugs). When you keep it in your house you should feed it insects. Do not feed it meat, because it is mainly an insectivore not a carnivore (the ability to digest meat). If you feed it meat, more than likely it will kill the plant because it will not be able to digest it correctly.
Part of the Venus flytrap smells like a flower to attract insects. When an insect lands there, the flytrap closes its leaves around the insect to trap it. It then uses fluids to turn it into food.
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- Information about the Venus flytrap from the Botanical Society of America website
- website with information about the Carnivorous Plants of the world
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