Photo of the Kids

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I just finished taking photos of the “kids”–my collection of carnivorous plants. They’re mostly North American pitcher plants, but I do have a very prolific population of Venus flytraps as well. The things reproduce like crazy. Not only are the seeds majorly fertile, but the corms love to divide. Start with one flytrap and in a couple years you’ll have a flytrap village.

Anyway, I have yet to process the rest of the photos to place in my gallery, but I thought I’d give you a little preview. The flytraps have been snarfing down bugs like M&M chocolate covered peanuts, so forgive the fly and hornet exoskeletons. My kids are not very good about brushing their teeth.

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September 27, 2009 by
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Comments

  1. Neal - Sax Station says
    September 28, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    Hey Bob, that’s a cool picture! I didn’t realize they spread so quickly.

  2. admin says
    September 28, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    Thanks, Neal! Yes, the flytraps multiply like rabbits–little green, carnivorous rabbits with fangs. I tried raising them from seeds and wound up with probably about 500 to 700 teeny little flytraps in two batches. Unfortunately, I didn’t dust them with sulfur when I stuck them in the frig last year, and white mold took them all.