Venus Flytrap - A carnivores plant

 THE VENUS FLYTRAP - AN INSECT EATING PLANT

The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), a small perennial herb, is one of the most widely recognized plant species on Earth. It forms a basal rosette of distinct leaves that are attached to a short rhizome. The leaf blade consists of two kidney-shaped, hinged, sensitive lobes up to 25 mm long with stiff marginal hairs to 8 mm long. When trigger hairs are stimulated, the two lobes snap closed, trapping insects between them. The petioles are winged and 2 to 7 cm long. Flowers are borne in an umbelliform cyme (short flower stalks which spread from a common point, somewhat like umbrella ribs) at the top of a 10 to 30 cm tall scape, with five white petals that are 11 to 13 mm long. The monecious flowers (male and female plant parts on the same flower) contain one stigma (female part) and 10 to 20 stamens (male parts). Venus flytrap flowers from May to June, and the seeds mature in June and July. Research at NC State University indicates that the most common pollinators are the green sweat bee, a checkered beetle and the notch-tipped flower longhorn beetle.

Habitat

Venus flytrap occurs in longleaf pine habitats in two physiographic regions of the Carolinas - the Coastal Plain and Sandhills. In the Coastal Plain where it is more common, Venus flytrap occurs in wet loamy pine savannas and sandy pine savannas. These sites are generally flat with wet or moist soils for much of the year. It also occurs in ecotones between wet savannas and drier areas such as the sandy rims of Carolina Bays. In the Sandhills region, it is limited to narrow, moist transitional areas between streamhead pocosins (linear, evergreen shrub bogs along small creeks and their headwaters) and longleaf pine/scrub oak/wiregrass uplands and along the vegetatively similar ecotones between Sandhill seeps and longleaf pine uplands. Sandhill seeps are sphagnous, shrub-and-herb-dominated areas occurring in relatively steep places where local clay soils force seepage water to the surface. Soils in these ecotonal areas are usually highly acidic, loamy sands.

Its a strange looking plant . PICS -

It has a green cover with inner part red . It looks like someone mouth .

 

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