| CARNIVOROUS PLANT - VENUS FLY TRAP |
 enlarge | Brand: JUST GREEN
Category: Lawn & Patio
Buy New: £11.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 278
Country: UK
MPN: JG3000
EAN: 5060027100294
ASIN: B000OP7QZ8
Availability: Usually dispatched within 2-3 business days
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Features:
| • | Attractive and easy to grow plant | | • | Natural pest control | | • | Great gift for children and adults alike | | • | Plant needs full sun | | • | Great for greenhouse or conservatory |
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Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
This plant has very strong traps on it and can catch a wide variety of insects including, wasps, spiders and even small slugs. Each plant will consume about three insects and then die back with a new plant being formed afterwards. Cultivation: The plant needs full sun on a south facing windowsill or conservatory. Stand the plant in rain water or soft water. Ideally only water with rain water or distilled water.
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Customer Reviews:
Useful Information About these Interesting Little Plants December 13, 2007
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have been fascinated by these little plants ever since I was a little boy and was keen to learn more about them from these great little book. There has been such an upturn in sales of these plants that now they are being bred with varying shades of red on the pads. Some of them even being purple.
It was interesting to find out that the plant although designed by nature to catch insects does not actually need to do so to survive. In its native habitat it lives in very boggy ground. The nutrient it needs to survive is almost negligible. When it does catch an insect it has what you could call a `hair trigger.' There are hairs on the pad of the plant and when the fly or other insect touches one of the hair this triggers the plant into closing the two halves of its pad. Each pad has tooth-like protuberances on either side of the pad and as the pad closes these mesh together, making escape impossible for the captured insect.
The book gives all the information needed to keep these plants healthy. The compost drying out is probably the worst thing that could happen. This is one of the few plants that can be stood in a small amount of water, to help to keep its feet wet. These little plants are real curiosities and well worth having. If you look after it well it will probably even flower for you, but this is a bonus.
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