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Growing in one of the glasshouses at the Oxford Botanic Gardens.
The Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests animal prey—mostly insects and arachnids. Its trapping structure is formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves and is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces. When an insect or spider crawling along the leaves contacts a hair, the trap closes if a different hair is contacted within twenty seconds of the first strike. The requirement of redundant triggering in this mechanism serves as a safeguard against a waste of energy in trapping objects with no nutritional value.
Adventures in tissue culture with the Plant Molecular Biology course. Nice-looking Venus fly trap stage 3 tissue culture in a glass culture tube with pretransplant medium for rooting. The roots are black with growing tips sometimes looking orange. You can see it digging into the agar.
This is my set up I have right now for my Sarracenia and Venus Flytraps. I'm new to these types of carnivorous plants but I set this up with rainwater I collected in buckets. I think it looks pretty with the reflections
This is my new Venus Flytrap, his name is Seymore and he is my first plant in more than a decade. I really hope I don't accidentally kill him with my toxic love. I have a bad plant history.
Tippi's babies did not like the terrarium I put them in when they seemed to need a little more humidity. I carefully pruned the dying leaves and put them in little makeshift pots made from tiny water bottles. They are doing better, even maybe starting to blush.
Venus flytrap seedling germinating on agar. This one is upside-down. The ring of "hairs" I think are root hairs with the orange "nose" in the middle being the radicle (embryonic root).
Normally you will see two traps fused together, but this has two traps on the one leaf independent of each other. :)
Apparently it's a sales trick: The plants latch on to passing customers, and those who are unsuccessful in detatch them from whatever body part they hang on to, will have to buy them and take them home.
Curious teenagers are, of course, easy prey to such things. And yes, we ended up taking the plant home with us.
More about the Venus Flytrap here.
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April 9th, 2009, at Plantasjen outside Tønsberg.
Image no. IMG_2528
The Venus Flytrap, Dionaea, uses modified leaves to trap and digest insects and other small creatures in the flytrap's nutrient-poor environment. Four trigger hairs on the inside (upper) surface of these leaves trigger the rapid leaf closing when disturbed. In this cross section of the leaf, there are numerous digestive glands on the adaxial (inner) surface.
I had been looking for catnip seeds for a long time, and finally found them at Waterstones. So time to grow catnip, venus flytraps and bonsai trees
This macro shot of a cluster of Venus Flytraps nears abstraction with traps in front of my lens helping to blur the whole image.
This photo is one of my mom's favorite images.
These plants were propagated by students learning tissue culture and overwintered in my garage. I also kept a few praying mantis egg cases in there. A lot of the baby mantises ended up becoming flytrap food.