QueenCobra
big boy season
I’ve seen Venus flytraps and the starter for a pitcher plant at a plant store (not in action, thankfully) and honestly…I see the benefit but they kind of creep me out.
It’s almost like having a pet, I guess. You have to keep feeding them. Maybe my impression of them is distorted by the Pirahna Plants in Mario or The Little Shop of Horrors, but…they are fascinating.
When I read that some of these plants eat birds, I felt like crying. But I guess they have to eat, too.
Some fossil pollen has been found for extinct carnivorous plants. I wonder what those would have looked like.
I also saw a trailer for a Lifetime movie once where a woman fed her husband’s ashes to a Venus flytrap. Very camp. I don’t think they would eat that, though. They don’t even eat dead bugs, because movement is what triggers their mouth to open….
So…have any of you owned a carnivorous plant? What did you think of it?
It’s almost like having a pet, I guess. You have to keep feeding them. Maybe my impression of them is distorted by the Pirahna Plants in Mario or The Little Shop of Horrors, but…they are fascinating.
When I read that some of these plants eat birds, I felt like crying. But I guess they have to eat, too.
Some fossil pollen has been found for extinct carnivorous plants. I wonder what those would have looked like.
I also saw a trailer for a Lifetime movie once where a woman fed her husband’s ashes to a Venus flytrap. Very camp. I don’t think they would eat that, though. They don’t even eat dead bugs, because movement is what triggers their mouth to open….
So…have any of you owned a carnivorous plant? What did you think of it?
