Trichterfalle - an odd flytrap clone

[flytrapcare.com]

I'm really liking this plant. I've only been growing it since September 2009 and when I received it from Bob Ziemer, it was very small. But it grew quite a bit over the winter and has done very well this growing season. Here are a few photos for those of you that haven't seen it or for those of you that just like looking at photos



A couple of closeups of the "scaling" (I think that's what most people call it) on the leaves.



The weird traps, which are fused on the proximal end, are only present later in the summer and fall. In the spring, the traps are fairly normal in appearance. A closeup of the odd traps:

[H2O]

That is one cool little plants, add it to the list of things Canada wants

[flytrapcare.com]

Oct 26, 2010 23:00:21 GMT -5 H2O said:

That is one cool little plants, add it to the list of things Canada wants

OK, I'll do that

[ianturkstra]

Neat! That's one I haven't seen before. Do those half-fused traps close properly? Can they actually trap anything?

[flytrapcare.com]

Oct 27, 2010 19:04:11 GMT -5 ianturkstra said:

Neat! That's one I haven't seen before. Do those half-fused traps close properly? Can they actually trap anything?

Believe it or not, I've not messed with them at all yet, so I can't answer that.