TimV
Puritanboard Botanist
This carnivorous plant is unique for a couple reasons. We have very few of this type of plant on the west coast, and even fewer carnivorous plants like shade, as does this. They live in bogs in Northern CA and Oregon, where not much else lives do to really poor soil. They don't have any fancy chemicals to lure and digest prey, but those speckles on the "hood" are transparent, and when a fly crawls inside to investigate the smell of it's previous dinner it bangs itself against these false windows just like they do in your house until it falls down exhausted and joins the larder.
This one is a fairly easy grower once you keep in mind the soil should be acidic, no fertilizer, always keep damp with pure water. Full sun or partial shade, don't worry if they die back in winter. They can take a frost as well. Never fertilize. All in all a nice one for a child's science project. This one is about 5 years old, and I've never had to feed it once
This one is a fairly easy grower once you keep in mind the soil should be acidic, no fertilizer, always keep damp with pure water. Full sun or partial shade, don't worry if they die back in winter. They can take a frost as well. Never fertilize. All in all a nice one for a child's science project. This one is about 5 years old, and I've never had to feed it once