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This is what most people think of when they hear of carnivorous plants, the familiar Venus Flytrap, or Dionaea muscipula, one of the few CP's that actively grasp prey, rather than simply waiting for prey to fall in. These are actually rather delicate plants that must have very stringent requirements in order to survive, including being kept very wet and needing at least several hours of strong sunlight each day, and being unable to tolerate most water, making either rainwater or distilled water a must. Contrary to popular belief, they are NOT exotic tropical plants, but are native to the US, specifically, to a small area of coastal North and South Carolina, found growing in boggy Carolina bays, geological anomalies themselves. Carolina bays are elliptical craters/depressions along the eastern seaboard coast plain, of unknown origin, though more and more indicators are pointing to an early theory-that of them having been extraterrestrial impact or impact "cast-off" craters, possibly from a huge comet or meteorite that struck the Laurentide Ice Sheet around the Great Lakes region during the end of the last major Ice Age. Whatever their origins, the bays have become home to some very unique organisms, like the Venus Flytrap.

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Mood: Joy !volotation Jan 3, 2013  Student General Artist
c'est bien la photo
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Mood: Satisfied ~PixelSmixel Jan 1, 2013  Student General Artist
well you do have a point ;but i think we should keep on waiting for that day, when science can finally mutae stuff
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Mood: Sentimental ~PixelSmixel Dec 31, 2012  Student General Artist
kool i want one;wait i want a mutated venus flytrap so it can eat my little brother or little bother!
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I can think of a few folks I'd love to feed to one as well, but alas, these are small plants incapable of eating anything larger than a fly. Some of the Nepenthes, or tropical pitcher plants, can "eat" rats, and I actually "feed" mine a frozen/thawed pinkie mouse once in awhile, but that genus is the closest thing to a real flesh-eating plant on this planet.

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