Venus Flytrap Essay

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The Venus Flytrap, known to the science community as Dionaea muscipula, is most commonly found and is native to the southeastern parts of the United States and even more commonly North and South Carolina. They are also found in bogs or wetlands and some say that there is a symbiosis relationship between the venus flytrap and sphagna moss. They are a carnivorous plant but also is a heterotroph or can produce its food from sunlight. This plant is considered by many to be one of the most interesting and mysterious plants. They eat small insects and the mechanism that controls the leaf closing prevents it closing by any small thing such as a rain drop from closing the leaf. The morphology or structure of the plant is complex. There is the leaf which is the actual trapping mechanism of the venus flytrap. It is triggered by the trigger hairs which send a signal when there are two touches within 2 to 20 seconds. The stems form a wheel which goes round in a circle like a bicycle wheel. In the spring they produce a 12 inch tall flower that releases seeds. Venus flytraps can have up to 10 leaves then the whit bottom of the stem splits into a different plant. They also have small root systems because of their environment they live in where water is abundant. In the Spring and Fall the leaves and short, fat, and lay close to the ground. In the summer the stem grows taller and the leaves are higher in the

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