Origin
South America
Light
Dappled shade
Watering
Twice a week
Care
Expert
Flowering
Foliage
Indoor
Dionée Attrape-Mouche
Two trigger hairs touched within twenty seconds and the trap shuts: it grows only in Carolina bogs, and accepts nothing but rainwater.
Care Profile
A guide to ensuring your botanical companion thrives.
Origin
North America
Light
Full sun
Watering
Twice a week
Maintenance
Expert
The trap of the Carolinas
In the wild it grows only within about a hundred kilometres of Wilmington, North Carolina, on poor bogs kept open by fire.
Every trap is counted: it shuts only a handful of times before dying, and the insect replaces the fertiliser the soil cannot supply.
"It hunts not from hunger, but from poor soil."
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Styling Tip 01
Rainwater only
Rain or distilled water in a saucer that never runs dry, pure peat, and never fertiliser or tap water.
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Styling Tip 02
Full sun
Four to six hours of direct sun: in shade the traps pale, stretch and stop closing.
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Styling Tip 03
Cold winter dormancy
Three months between zero and ten degrees, barely moist: without that rest it exhausts itself in two or three years.
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Origin
Southeast Asia
Light
Low to bright
Watering
Weekly
Care
Easy
Flowering
Foliage