FREE: VENUS FLY TRAP!

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10 SEEDS
THIS IS NOT THE LIVE PLANT!

The winner will receive 10 Venue Fly Trap seeds with hand written instructions on how to grow and care for them.


The Venus Fly Trap, Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant native to the bogs and swamplands of North and South Carolina. It preys on insects with its uniquely shaped terminal portion of its leaves. The leaf has two primary regions: a broad flat typical leaf-like region called the leaf-base that is capable of carrying out photosynthesis and grows out of the ground, and the trapping mechanism, called the leaf-blade orlamina, at the end of the leaf that is composed of two lobes with hinged together by a midrib.  Each trap usually has between two and five “trigger hairs” on each lobe with three trigger hairs on each lobe being normal. The edge of the trap is lined with teeth or finger-like cilia that lace together when the trap shuts. The leaf-base and leaf-blade (trap) are joined together by what is referred to as the petiole.