CELEBESMEDIA.ID: Makassar – The Venus flytrap plant, also known as Dionaea muscipula, is a unique carnivorous plant. This plant is famous for its ability to catch insects and eat them.
One of the distinctive features of the Venus Flytrap is its teeth-covered leaves, which serve as a trap to catch prey. In general, each Venus Flytrap plant has about six stems with hinged leaves.
The Venus Flytrap’s native habitat is North Carolina and South Carolina, but it can also be found in Florida and New Jersey.
These plants usually grow in moist, acidic soil beneath forests, requiring high humidity and sunlight to grow properly.
Food is an interesting aspect of the Venus Flytrap. This plant attracts insects with a reddish coating that forms on the leaves and secretes fragrant nectar.
When the insect lands on a Venus Flytrap leaf, it closes in less than 20 seconds.
The second movement of the leaf causes the leaf to change shape from convex to concave, while ensuring that insects cannot escape through the hairs on the edges of the leaf.
After that, the Venus Flytrap will digest the insect and the digestive fluid will go into the “mouth” of the leaf to break up the insect. The main victims of the Venus Flytrap are ants, flies, beetles, snails, spiders, and small frogs.
Even though they eat insects, Venus Flytraps still need water, air, and sunlight as a source of their nutrition.
Reproduction of Venus Flytrap is done like other plants. Venus Flytrap seeds will appear when the flowers of this plant are pollinated. The ripe seeds are shaped like black pears, and will be dispersed to grow into new Venus Flytrap plants after four to six weeks.***
