Dente Venus Fly Trap Plant - Dionaea - Carnivorous - Potted

by Hirts: Carnivorous

Product Features

• Carnivorous
• Nature provides this remarkable plant with "traps" to lure and capture it's food. The traps are covered inside by tiny hairs and a sticky sweet smelling substance attractive to insects
• Distilled or Rain Water Only
• Keep Moist at all Times
• The small starter plant is growing in a 2" pot

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0012YKCPQ
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,839 in Patio, Lawn & Garden (See Top 100 in Patio, Lawn & Garden)

Product Description

Nature provides this remarkable plant with "traps" to lure and capture it's food. The traps are covered inside by tiny hairs and a sticky sweet smelling substance attractive to insects. When an insect touches the trigger hair, the trap is activated and closes around it's victim. After digestion of it's meal (whick takes several days), the trap will open again for a new catch.

PLANTING AND CARE:
Keep moist at all times, rainwater or distilled water are preferred. Plants should not be fertilized (so therefore should be separated from your other plants). The insects it catches provide natural nourishment. Select a sunny window for your Venus Flytrap. In replanting only use sphagnum! Peat moss will do in a pinch. Put a plastic saucer underneath the plant to hold water and keep it's humidity proper but do not stand in a dish of water.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Dente flytrap or the typical flytrap?, October 4, 2009

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Michael (CA, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dente Venus Fly Trap Plant - Dionaea - Carnivorous - Potted

I have to give three stars for my order from Hirts. I am unsatisfied with two folds.

One is that the arrived plant is the typical venus flytrap, not the 'dente' venus flytrap. The typical venus flytrap is the most common one among flytraps. But the 'dente' venus flytrap has jawlike 'teeth' along the trap edge.

Second, the shipping method needs to improve. The arrived plant is dying, because it is buried by the soil during the mailing. All its leaves tightly stick to the soil.

However, after careful care, the little plant is thriving and growing four new leaves after 3 weeks.

Here are my suggestions to the growers:

One, don't expect the plant will arrive at your home in good condition. But you can make it thrive.

Two, you 'must' do some research to know how to grow it. You cannot use the tap water and ordinary plant soils. Also, you need to provide enough moist and sunlight for flytraps. The book: The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants (by Peter D'Amato), has good guidance on how to plant all the carnivorous plants.

Third, although the shipping is bad for flytrap, the seller ships other carnivorous plants in good methods (this is strange). So, if you plan to buy other carnivorous plants (such as Sarracenia, Drosera, Nepenthes), you can trust this seller and your plants will arrive in a good condition. Actually, I have bought some pitch plants and sundew from this seller, and they all arrived in good conditions.

Fourth, if you really want to buy a 'dente" flytrap, not a typical flytrap, you must do some research to know how to differentiate the two. Sometimes, the seller may sold you the 'typical', not the 'dente'.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pleased with my purchase, November 17, 2009

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Melissa A. Wolff (Highland Park, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dente Venus Fly Trap Plant - Dionaea - Carnivorous - Potted

The venus fly trap plant arrived at my apartment only 3 days after ordering it, which was a nice surprise. It came planted in a small pot, and the entire plant was wrapped in newspaper and then packed in those styrofoam packing peanuts. Apparently fly traps have a dormancy period during the winter so my plant does look flattened down, but still healthy and alive. Note: the fly traps are planted in a type of moss that looks like dead plant matter, but it is just to keep the plants moist. I made the mistake of trying to pull it all out before I realized what it was, then I had to stuff it all back in the pot which was a nuisance.
It's been about 3 weeks since I received my plant and it is doing quite well. I keep it moist with distilled water and it's happily living in a sunny window. It's grown 3 new heads already!

The only reason I'm rating this a 4 out of 5 is that my plant is not a Dente Venus Fly trap, it's just a regular one. Although I'm still happy with it, it's not what I ordered. I noticed that another reviewer also received a regular fly trap as well.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars dead dead dead, May 31, 2010

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A. May (CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dente Venus Fly Trap Plant - Dionaea - Carnivorous - Potted

The plants died within a week of being delivered. (And YES I did follow the instructions for their care). Save yourself a lot of time and money by just purchasing these plants at Home Depot as they will actually live, cost half as much, and NO shipping charge!