Dionaea muscipula - Venus Flytrap Size:8cm cultivar: Silver Lady)

cultivar: Silver Lady)

and likes its soil to be loose and airy

Whilst relatively easy to care for it is quite slow-growing

Is it too dark

but it likes more water than its desert cousins

Dionaea muscipula - Venus Flytrap Size:8cm cultivar: Silver Lady)One of the most recognisable plants in the world, the Venus Flytrap is famous for trapping and consuming insects; in its natural habitat, where it is an endangered species, its diet consists mainly of ants, spiders, beetles and grasshoppers, and only the occasional flying insect. It adapted this way to compensate for the poor quality of the boggy soil it grew in this was a more efficient way to get nutrients! The mechanism which closes the trap is