The only place on earth that Venus Flytraps grow naturally is within a narrow range along the coast of the southern US. They aren’t from the Amazon, or Borneo, or any place exotic like a rain forest. They only grow in a bare sandy patch of geography about an hour north of Myrtle Beach
They evolved to eat bugs because it allowed them to survive in shitty nutrient-sparse sand, the fact that we think of them as coming from a lush jungle or whatever is funny when you realize that
Yup, exactly! But there a ton of other different species of carnivorous plants that aren’t flytraps specifically that grow all over. There are actually varieties in equatorial jungles, and all the way north into Canada too
And a bunch of formerly carnivorous plants have evolved into inviting toilets for other animals, e.g., bats. Bat gets a nice place to poop, plant gets fertilizer.
Another carnivorous plant, Darlingtonia, only grows in a couple of swamps in Northern California, and Heliamphora are only found on top of flat-topped mountains called tepuis in South America. There are a lot of homebodies in the clade.
I think we think it’s wild because all the media depictions of them are in cool and interesting places for plot reasons. In my mind they belong with like komodo dragons and birds of paradise or something
The only place on earth that Venus Flytraps grow naturally is within a narrow range along the coast of the southern US. They aren’t from the Amazon, or Borneo, or any place exotic like a rain forest. They only grow in a bare sandy patch of geography about an hour north of Myrtle Beach
They evolved to eat bugs because it allowed them to survive in shitty nutrient-sparse sand, the fact that we think of them as coming from a lush jungle or whatever is funny when you realize that
Yup, exactly! But there a ton of other different species of carnivorous plants that aren’t flytraps specifically that grow all over. There are actually varieties in equatorial jungles, and all the way north into Canada too
And a bunch of formerly carnivorous plants have evolved into inviting toilets for other animals, e.g., bats. Bat gets a nice place to poop, plant gets fertilizer.
This is so cool! Probably a tough sell for a few years though lol
“I’m vegetarian”.
~That plant, probably.
Another carnivorous plant, Darlingtonia, only grows in a couple of swamps in Northern California, and Heliamphora are only found on top of flat-topped mountains called tepuis in South America. There are a lot of homebodies in the clade.
that’s wild
I think we think it’s wild because all the media depictions of them are in cool and interesting places for plot reasons. In my mind they belong with like komodo dragons and birds of paradise or something