How many venus fly trap species are there

Part of what keeps the understory open is natural fires that sweep through and burn away parts of trees and shrubs. These fires can become dangerous to humans, so often we stop them before they have a chance to provide benefits to the forest.

This results in less suitable habitat for the sun-loving Venus flytrap. The Venus flytrap gets some of its nutrients from the soil, but to supplement its diet, the plant eats insects and arachnids. Ants , beetles, grasshoppers, flying insects, and spiders are all victims of the flytrap. It can take a Venus flytrap three to five days to digest an organism, and it may go months between meals.

Venus flytraps are perennial plants, which means they bloom year after year. The flowers are white with green veins running from the base of the petal toward the edges. Pollinated flowers eventually give rise to seeds. Each trap on the plant can only open and close several times before it dies and falls off.

Then the plant produces a new trap from its underground stems. The Venus flytrap is internationally listed as vulnerable. It is also under consideration for federal listing on the U. This species is threatened by overcollection , habitat destruction , and fire suppression. Like all plants, the Venus flytrap gets its energy from the sun in a process called photosynthesis.

It digests insects and arachnids to get nutrients that are not available in the surrounding environment. You can find the registration forms on the ICPS website and you can also submit a description to the ICPS newsletter for publication if you have a particular plant that you would like to make an official cultivated variety.

It is important to notice how cultivar names are written. You can identify a cultivar name by the fact that it is enclosed in single quotes. Double quotes indicate a descriptive name, but not an official cultivar. For example, D. However, D. The preferred method to propagate most Dionaea muscipula cultivars is vegetatively.

Dionaea 'Wacky Traps' The leaves are incompletely developed. This is an extremely slow grower that also has strangely distorted flowers. Known in some circles as "Bart Simpson", but this name has not been established and might even violate some trademark laws. Dionaea Dentate Traps Group A cultivar group, and not a cultivar, this includes all the plants with marginal spines modified into toothlike or sawtooth structures. Plants with abnormal trap sizes Dionaea 'B52' This is a flytrap with very large traps that I registered in my first book; I'm rather proud to see that it is now one of the most widely circulated cultivars in trade.

Note I was not, however, the breeder who developed the plant! Also, it has bifurcated flower stalks. Other types There is a neverendingly enlarging list of cultivars--many of which just leave me scratching my head, because I think that the breeders have noticed some microscopic, largely irrelevant difference that they think makes their plant so special.

I have seen the collections of Dionaea , in which the grower has strived to collect all the cultivars I'm looking at you, Damon and Bob! Another red plant! But, there are some other real oddities out there that are interesting. Grow what makes you happy!