Common name Venus came from Venus goddess of love.
The plant is mysterious in the sense that is carnivorous plant. It have leaves that spring shut on and digest prey which land on them.
Prey includes beetles, spiders
and arthropodes.
Mechanisms of trapping: whenever the prey comes closer to the leaves, plant undergo rapid movement just like mimosa, sun dews and bladderworts. The leave hairs being highly sensitive cause stimulation and leaves get closed within 20 seconds..
The mechanism involves a complex interaction b/w elasticity, turgor and growth.
How quickly leaves close indicates the plant's general health.
However the exact mechanism is still poorly understood.
Digestion: when the lobes of leaves gets closed, they form a stomach in which digestion occurs and enzymes for the digestion are secreted by glands of lobes.
Inhabitation: the venus flytrap grows in nitrogen and phosphorous- poor environment such as bogs and Savannahs.
Natively it is found only in North and South Carolina in the United States.
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