Venus Fly Trap Flowers!
Venus Fly Trap
The flowering cycle of a Venus Fly Trap follows the 4 seasons with variant types of flowering in each. In spring, as the Venus Fly Trap arise from dormancy, the Venus fly trap will produce a rosette of short leaves that hug the surface of the ground with a trap at each tip. The Venus fly trap is usually not too large at this point, perhaps 2”-4” across. It is also at this time that a tall spike bearing several white flowers will appear.
As summer fades away a variant type of leaf is made. Now, instead of hugging the soil, taller, straighter leaves begin to grow holding the traps several inches above the ground. The Venus fly traps also change visually, becoming larger overall and having a semi-circular notch in the back. Newborn leaves with traps are constantly being made to replace the older, dying ones.
Once the days begin to slow down and the temperature starts to drop in fall, a smaller, flat rosette is made once again, it is very alike to that of the spring flowering. The Fly Traps now gets ready for dormancy.
In the winter, the Fly Traps are half evergreen and will have few to several leaves depending on how cold it gets. The leaves are quite tolerant of frost, but extended frost will eventually cause them to shiver and die. In the underground, the Fly Traps still remains quite active. A bulb (with a few scales), alike to a tiny lily, is resting and building up strength to begin growing even larger the following spring. Finally, this cycle repeats again.
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