Venus Flytrap
-Characteristics:
Kingdom:Plantae
| Family:Droseracerae | |
| Genus:Dionaea |
Venus flytrap is known botanically as Dionaea muscipula. The plant, which grows in poor soil in boggy parts of coastal North Carolina and South Carolina of EEUU, is best known for its carnivorous nature: It relies on captured insects for sustenance.
-Parts:
- Leaves: Venus flytrap has a rosette of leaves up to 20 cm across. Each leaf has a flat stalk and ends in a trap about 2 cm across. The centre is often reddish, and the sides of the trap are lined with 14–20 stiff, comb-like bristles that interlock when the trap closes.
- Flowers: The flowers are white, in a cluster at the top of a 15–45 cm leafless stalk. The flowers have five sepals and five equal petals, around 12 mm long. There are 15–20 stamens.
- Fruits and seeds: Numerous, small black seeds are formed in a round capsule.
-Reproduction:
The basic idea of pollinating a flower is that the pollen from the anthers that are on the top of the filaments (stamen) must come in contact with a receptive pistil. The pistil is the greenish round thing in the center of the flower. At the top of the pistil is the stigma.
The Venus flytrap is a perennal plant, which produces flowers from mid-May to the beginning of June; the method of pollination is not yet understood and whilst cross-pollination seems likely, self-pollination may also be possible .It is thought that seeds are dispersed in water, or by birds that accidentally pick up seeds in the muddy hábitat .
Venus Fly Trap Flower
-Fun facts:
- Like all plants, the Venus flytrap gets its energy from the sun in a process called photosynthesis. It digests insects and arachnids to get nutrients .
- Venus Flytrap plants are native to North America.
- The only place in the world that you can see native Venus Flytrap plants grow are on the coast of North and South Carolina, in the United States of America.
- It’s been estimated to live up to 20 years, possibly longer.
- It takes approximately 10 days for the Venus Flytrap to completely digest an insect, and reopen its trap.
- Venus flytrap has been the source of inspiration for many a horror film involving man-eating plants
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