Venus Flytrap Growing

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Flytrap Growing in poor conditions – Week 6

June 23, 2011, 5:09 pm

Our experiment has entered it’s sixth week and will be shortly heading into the middle of the summer when they will be exposed to the most sun. The test plants are looking fairly healthy but have lost...

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Venus Flytrap Taxonomy

June 23, 2011, 5:28 pm

There is only one genus of Venus flytrap … Dionaea muscipula Soland. ex Ellis. However there are many different varieties of this one species. Most cultivar species are distinguished by the colour of...

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Venus Flytrap Cultivars

June 23, 2011, 5:32 pm

The International Carnivorous Plant Society (ICPS) maintains a list of registered cultivar names for Dionaea muscipula Soland. ex Ellis (aka Venus flytrap). From Wikipedia: A cultivar is a cultivated...

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Red or Green Venus Flytraps?

June 23, 2011, 5:44 pm

People often ask why their traps are red whereas their friends are green. The reason some traps are green is due to a lack of light. Healthy plants exposed to lots of light (which they love) will...

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