Venus Flytrap by Gabriel Meyer https://padlet.com/20meyerg1/d66sudd8akwr Made by Gabe Meyer en-us 2017-03-22 14:24:25 UTC 2025-07-03 21:00:42 UTC hello@padlet.com KCCOFGS 20meyerg1 https://padlet.com/20meyerg1/d66sudd8akwr/wish/161833380 Kingdom- Plantae
Clade- Angiosperms
Clade- Eudicots
Order- Caryophyllales
Family- Droseraceae
Genus- Dionaea
Species- Dionaea muscipula]]> 2017-03-22 14:33:02 UTC https://padlet.com/20meyerg1/d66sudd8akwr/wish/161833380 Scientific and Common names 20meyerg1 https://padlet.com/20meyerg1/d66sudd8akwr/wish/161835885 Scientific- Dionaea muscipula
Common- Venus Fly trap]]> 2017-03-22 14:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/20meyerg1/d66sudd8akwr/wish/161835885 Location 20meyerg1 https://padlet.com/20meyerg1/d66sudd8akwr/wish/161836598 It is native to the coastal bogs of North and South Carolina in the United States. Found in bogs and wet savannahs.]]> 2017-03-22 14:39:45 UTC https://padlet.com/20meyerg1/d66sudd8akwr/wish/161836598 Characteristics 20meyerg1 https://padlet.com/20meyerg1/d66sudd8akwr/wish/161837806
  •  The Venus flytrap is a small plant with four to seven leaves 
  •  Each stem reaches a maximum size of about three to ten centimeters
  •  It catches its prey—chiefly insects and arachnids—with a trapping structure formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves, which is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces. 
  •  The edges of the lobes are fringed by stiff hair-like protrusions or cilia, which mesh together and prevent large prey from escaping. 
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  •  The plant's common name refers to Venus, the Roman goddess of love. The genus name, Dionaea refers to the Greek goddess Aphrodite, while the species name, muscipula, is Latin for "mousetrap". 
  •  Historically, the plant was also known by the slang term "tipitiwitchet" or "tippity twitchet", possibly an oblique reference to the plant's resemblance to human female genitalia. 
  •  The mechanism by which the trap snaps shut involves a complex interaction between elasticityand growth. The trap only shuts when there have been two stimulations of the trigger hairs 
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