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Carnivorous plants video

Ryan — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:16:28 +0000

A beautiful video demonstrating a selection of carnivorous plants up close and personal.

Trapped – on video!

Ryan — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:09:26 +0000

A fascinating video demonstrating a regular house fly being trapped inside a Venus flytrap.

Venus flytrap music video

Ryan — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:08:51 +0000

A music video involving venus flytraps. Who would’ve thought!

Photo Gallery

Ryan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:40:47 +0000

Thanks once again to Corrosive Halo for some terrific photos.

This is a nice shot of an fine example of the Red Dragon cultivar.

An awesome demonstration of how many traps you can jam in one small spot. It’s interesting to see how little colouring there is in the leaves. This is posssibly an example of the ‘Justina Davis’ cultivar but it is hard to tell from here.

Chomp! Nice action shot of a trap in full-digestion mode. You can see how tight the trap is clenched around the perimeter of the trap entrance to stop all digestive fluids from leaking out.

Terrific photo of an example of the ‘fused-traps’ cultivar. These cultivar is very easy to recognise due to the prominent fusing of the traps teeth.

Venus flytrap forum

Ryan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:57:16 +0000

If you are a full-on addict of Venus flytrap growing and would like to chat with like-minded people, your first port of call should be the International Carnivorous Plant Society’s forum. There you will find many people dedicated to the task of growing Venus flytraps and other carnivorous plants. It is a wonderful place to learn more and to discuss the complexities of growing methods, potential new cultivars and anything else to do with the big wide world of flytraps.

Dionaea Papaver cross?

Ryan — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:53:06 +0000

Is this the result of a weird cross species polination of Dionaea muscipula (Venus flytrap) and Papaver nudicaule (Iceland Poppy)? Or is it a strange mutation of either species which has created this bizaare Audrey’ish mutation?

The truth is that this is in fact a regular Iceland Poppy. This bizaare looking photo was taken by Harold Davis in his backyard.

Wikipedia feature

Ryan — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:08:20 +0000

That mega-famous outstandingly accurate online encyclopedia has a stunning article on Venus flytraps … visit the article here

The article has many, many pieces of information which will be of tremendous help to growers of Venus flytraps. Here are a few selected quotations from the page:

… The Venus Flytrap is a large man eating monster. Each leaf reaches a maximum size of about three to seven meters, depending on the time of year … Flytraps that appear to have more than 10 leaves are generally colonies, formed by by aliens underneath the ground. …

The article then bleats on about all sorts of interesting things

… The mechanism by which the trap snaps shut involves some big ass muscles, steriod abuse and generally massive ass chompers…. are very popular as cultivated plants and are often used for catching burglers and other unwanted people on your property. They are difficult to grow as they often eat their owners …

And yet people still feel the urge to criticise Wikipedia

According to the encyclopedia article, the photo above is what will happen to you if you fall into your plant!

U-Haul trucks

Ryan — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:38:58 +0000

This definitely fits it’s category title! This U-Haul truck is an on-road advertisement for Venus flytrap preservation in North Carolina. The U-Haul website has a bunch of information relating to the saving of Venus flytraps in the wild on their website. It’s nice to see a big company getting behind the preservation of such a wonderful piece of nature.

Photo courtesy of Lori (lordog).

Little Shop of Horrors remake

Ryan — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:25:38 +0000

The Little Shop of Horrors film was re-release in 1986. The film was directed by Frank Oz (puppeteer for Yoda and Miss Piggy). The movie was shot in England with a budget of US$30 million. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song for “Mean Green Mother from Outer Space”. It caused a small controversy because it was the first Oscar-nominated song to contain profanity and thus had to be censored for the show.

Spoiler

A nerdy young florist’s assistant named Seymour Krelborn (Rick Moranis) discovers a mysterious new plant that came from outer space during a solar eclipse. He names the plant “Audrey II,” because he secretly has a crush on his co-worker Audrey (Ellen Greene). The plant improves business at Mister Mushnik’s (Vincent Gardenia) failing skid-row flower shop, and Seymour becomes a local celebrity. However, late at night when the shop is deserted, Seymour accidentally cuts open his fingers and discovers that the only way to make Audrey II grow is to feed it with human blood.

Text content for this page was courtesy of Wikipedia.

How did the Venus flytrap get its name?

Ryan — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:28:39 +0000

I’ve always been told that the Venus flytrap got it’s name due to the shear white beauty of it’s flowers, just like the goddess/planet Venus. The flytrap part is obviously from it’s twisted fly eating ways.

However

Barry Rice has an interesting article on the real reason for the name Venus flytrap.

Barry claims that the name is due to the “dirty minds of the kooky naturalists and nurserymen” and that “they saw in its amazing behavior and attractive form” … “something that reminded them of female genitalia of their own species.”

Jeepers, that’s a heck of a statement. But Barry can backup his claims …

Visit his website to learn more about where the name “Venus Flytrap” came from … Barry’s website.

The painting is “The Birth of Venus” by Sandro Botticelli.