V for Venus Flytrap Archives

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The “V” category in the glossary is represented by the Venus flytrap, which in turn is probably the best-known species of a very own plant genus, which fascinates so many people carnivorous plants.

The sundew plant is a wonder of nature that has become a popular houseplant with us because the speed at which the leaves snap shut never ceases to amaze. In the right location and with the right care, the Venus Flytrap is a very perennial plant. The indoor gardener (or should one say “keeper”?) only needs a nutrient-poor soil and a moist one environment, such as the plant's homeland in the American Pocosin Bogs (North and South Carolina) is equivalent to. Then it needs a little rainwater in the saucer, which it absorbs through its root system, the plant gets the rest of its nutrients from the insects that it catches in your home.

The world of carnivorous plants has a lot more to offer: there are plants with sticky traps (eg. B. sundew, butterworts and weed plants), suction traps (water hoses), pit traps (for pitcher plants such as dwarf pitcher or pitcher plant or pitcher plant) and pot traps, sometimes capable of active movement, sometimes of passive capture aligned. In fact, the Venus Flytrap snap-trap is the rarest trapping method, otherwise known only to a plant called Waterfall. About the treatment of these plants and special requests z. B. during the hibernation you will find more under the respective key points in the glossary.

In any case, the carnivorous plants are among the plants with which every little researcher is very familiar with the Nature can be introduced, and all great explorers enjoy this multifaceted nature just as much plant world.

Under “V” you will of course also find vanilla and the four-leaf clover and some other keywords, little by little there will be more and more.

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