What is a B52 Venus flytrap?

Venus Flytrap 'B52' is in a class of its own. Venus flytrap 'B52' grows massive, bright red traps with unusually long teeth. These Dionaea Muscipula are vigorous growers, and produce a large number of traps. There is very high demand for these plants, so snap them up while you can!
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How big does a b52 Venus flytrap get?

Dionaea muscipula B-52

Not named for the massive B-52 bomber, but might as well be, the B-52 flytrap is a massive traps surpassing 2 inches in length.
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How do you care for a b52 Venus flytrap?

For best Venus flytrap care, keep the environment humid and the soil moist but don't let the plants stand constantly in water. Never give your plants what comes out of your tap; it's usually too alkaline or might have too many minerals. Instead, rely on rain or use distilled water.
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What is the largest Venus flytrap?

The largest individual trapping leaf from a Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a specimen of the cultivar “Alien”, which was verified to be 6.1 cm (2.4 in) across the midrib on 7 June 2021.
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What are the different types of Venus flytraps?

There are multiple varieties of this cultivar – Dionaea Jaws, Dionaea Dente, Dionaea Red Piranha, and Dionaea Sawtooh, and all of them originate from a laboratory – the result of mutations accumulated en vitro, or during tissue culture cloning.
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What is the best type of Venus flytrap?

BLOOMIFY Venus Flytrap

Dionea muscipula B52 is one of the biggest cultivars, having claws up to 2 inches long. These are grown in a gel medium that contains all of the nutrients and water they require to develop and thrive!
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Are blue Venus flytraps real?

For seasoned carnivorous plant hobbyists and collectors, this may seem like common knowledge, but for the new and uninitiated, it's worth a warning: Blue Venus Flytraps are a scam. All of them. Every one of them is fake.
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Can you feed a Venus flytrap bacon?

Absolutely not! Under no circumstances should a Venus flytrap be fed something that it couldn't catch on its own in nature. First of all, this will likely make the trap turn black and die if it actually forms a seal around the meat and starts to digest it.
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How long do Venus flytraps last?

Venus flytraps are perennial, carnivorous plants that can live up to 20 years in the wild. While most of their energy is obtained through photosynthesis, insects provide nutrients that aren't readily available in the soil.
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How big can a house Venus flytrap get?

Assuming that you grow your plant well, and assuming that you continue to grow it well for a few years, it will reach a maximum size of about 13 cm (5 inches) in diameter. Mind you, that is the size of the entire plant! A single leaf trap may be a tad larger than 3 cm (1 inch) in length.
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How hard is it to keep a Venus flytrap alive?

In many respects, flytraps should be easy. They don't require fertilizing. They can survive under full sun or fluorescent lights. Unlike so many other houseplants, they can sit in a half-inch of standing water without fear of roots rotting.
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What can Venus flytraps not do?

Do not give a trap any food that is bigger than about 1/3 the size of the trap; larger insects take too long to digest and can cause bacterial rot that kills the trap. It responds to the movement of an insect to avoid wasting energy on consuming non-food sources.
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Do Venus flytraps eat mosquitoes?

Several carnivorous plant species (including Venus Fly Traps, Pitcher Plants, and Common Bladderwort) eat mosquitoes as part of their insect diet.
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Are giant Venus fly traps real?

Harris' flytrap is probably not what immediately comes to mind if you've seen Little Shop of Horrors. His world-record flytrap is only about 6.1 centimeters in size. The world's largest Venus flytrap on record, grown by Jeremiah Harris of Colorado Springs.
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What is the best carnivorous plants for indoors?

Best Indoor Carnivorous Plants
  • Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) ...
  • Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia) ...
  • Sundew (Drosera) ...
  • Butterwort (Pinguicula) ...
  • Monkey Cups (Nepenthes) ...
  • Bladderwort (Utricularia) ...
  • Australian Pitcher Plant (Cephalotus follicularis) ...
  • 18 Pretty & Modern Indoor Stepladder Garden Ideas.
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What is the largest carnivorous plant?

With stems reaching up to nearly 5 feet and pitchers that grow to roughly a foot in diameter, it's the world's largest carnivorous plant. Endemic to Borneo, Nepenthes rajah has enormous pitchers which can hold three quarts of liquid—and trap lizards and even small rodents.
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Should I cut off black Venus flytraps?

Cut off dead flowers with scissors – and in the case of Venus flytraps and pitcher plants, cut off the dead traps if they go black – this often happens in autumn and winter.
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Why is my Venus flytrap turning black?

Winter dormancy

Like many other temperate plants, Venus flytraps require a cold winter dormancy in order to survive long-term. As the daylight hours shorten and temperatures drop, it's normal for some traps to go black and die as your plant enters its winter resting phase.
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Can I feed my Venus flytrap hamburger?

If you feed a Venus flytrap a bit of hamburger meat, it will probably die. Venus flytraps expect bugs. Feed them anything else, and they will not like it. There is far too much non-bug energy and protein in cow-meat.
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Can I feed my Venus flytrap ants?

The Venus flytrap gets some of its nutrients from the soil, but to supplement its diet, the plant eats insects and arachnids. Ants, beetles, grasshoppers, flying insects, and spiders are all victims of the flytrap. It can take a Venus flytrap three to five days to digest an organism, and it may go months between meals.
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How do you grow a huge Venus flytrap?

The flytrap requires nutrient-free soil that provides good drainage and aeration. Use a standard soil mixture of 1 part peat moss and 1 part perlite. Never use potting soil, compost or fertilizer. These ingredients will kill your plant.
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What does a Venus flytrap symbolize?

Symbolism. The Venus flytrap represents 'persistence'. This is due to the fact that if the plant has failed to seize a visiting fly, it remains sulkily shut for a couple of hours, but then resets itself. The mouth opens again to try once more: a new round with new opportunities.
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Do Venus flytraps glow in the dark?

Venus Fly Traps Glow Blue to Attract Their Prey.
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