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Carnivorous Plants in the Wilderness
by Makoto Honda



 
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Venus Flytrap

GENUS Dionaea


FAMILY Droseraceae

 

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Probably the most famous of all carnivorous plants because of its swift movement of trap leaves, the Venus flytrap is endemic to the Atlantic coastal plain of North America, where it is highly localized to southeastern North Carolina and the adjacent northeastern part of South Carolina, within a 100km radius around the city of Wilmington on the N.C. coast. The plants are typically found on a moist surface in the open pine tree forest, sometimes on a thick mat of sphagnum moss, sometimes right on the white sand surface, often in company of other carnivorous plants in the area such as sundews and terrestrial bladderworts........ Click Description for more.

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