This the one carnivorous plant that everyone had heard of, seen or even grown at home (I had one when I was a kid, it's name of Dorothy). Which is kind of strange considering that it's natural distribution is extremely limited. It grows wild only in a small marshy area in North Carolina, and it's habitat is highly endangered. Also, that is called a "fly trap" is also a misnomer. In reality it eats all kinds of insects. At home, people often feed their "fly traps" meal worms.
I really don't know how this plant came to be so well known worldwide. Do we have director Roger Corman to thank for this?? Was it the original Little Shop of Horrors (1960) that caused the world to go "fly trap crazy"??
For more info, including a cool little video of a trap being "sprung," click here. See another video from Attenborough's Private Life Of Plants below.
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