Description
The Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea Muscipula) is a carnivorous plant native to the bogs and swamplands of North and South Carolina. It preys on insects with its uniquely shaped leaves. The leaf has two primary regions: a broad flat typical leaf-like region called the leaf-base that is capable of carrying out photosynthesis and grows out of the ground, and the trapping mechanism, called the leaf-blade or lamina, at the end of the leaf that is composed of two lobes with hinged together by a midrib. Each trap usually has between two and five “trigger” hairs on each lobe with three trigger hairs on each lobe being normal. The edge of the trap is lined with teeth or finger-like cilia that lace together when the trap shuts
