Young Leaves on Venus Flytrap
When I visited the Green Swamp in early May, the leaves on all the Venus Flytrap plants (Dionaea muscipula) were young and fresh. If you look carefully, you can see trigger hairs on the inner surfaces of the traps. (These are far less obvious than the "fingers" along the margins of the leaves.) When an insect walks into the trap and bumps into a trigger hair, the trap closes.
The Green Swamp is located near Wilmington, North Carolina.
Young Leaves on Venus Flytrap
When I visited the Green Swamp in early May, the leaves on all the Venus Flytrap plants (Dionaea muscipula) were young and fresh. If you look carefully, you can see trigger hairs on the inner surfaces of the traps. (These are far less obvious than the "fingers" along the margins of the leaves.) When an insect walks into the trap and bumps into a trigger hair, the trap closes.
The Green Swamp is located near Wilmington, North Carolina.