First of all, Venus Flytrap don’t need fertile soil. Venus is a plant, but it is also a carnivore, too, because it consumes insects to survive. As Venus Flytraps consumes insects, they dissolves in the catcher leaves, leaving the corpse behind and absorbs the liquid. The liquid provides lots and lots nutrition for the plant to live, so poor soil is needed. Rich soil may be rare, but dry soil is common, though.
Secondly, the way Venus Flytrap captures insects is very interesting. Many people commonly think that a Venus Flytrap always close its mouth randomly or snaps when something either big or small touch it. The truth lies in the catcher leaves. Catcher leaves have trigger hairs which acts as the activating lever for the leaves to close. Bugs get trapped as the touches the trigger hair. Another notable fact about the leaves is that it doesn’t close its leaves if …show more content…
Since one Venus Flytrap can grow many flowers, one of the way for it to reproduce is through pollination which consists of self-pollination and cross-pollination. Pollination is when a vector such as butterflies, water, winds, bees, etc. transfer the pollen grains from the male anther into the female stigma. Self-pollination means that a flower’s own anther grain will transferred by a vector into its own stigma. Cross-pollination means that a flower’s anther pollen will transferred by a vector into another stigma. Another way for it to reproduce is through rhizomes which are leaves formed underground that reproduced into Venus Flytraps. If you want to plant another one, don’t buy another seed; they’ll reproduced through the