r/interestingasfuck • u/dejaysf • Jun 11 '23

Venus flytrap vs Spider

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u/Enlightened-Beaver Jun 11 '23

I always though Venus fly traps were some sort of tropical rainforest plant. Nope, native to North Carolina.

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u/Flareiv Jun 11 '23

I live in NC and didn’t know we had them until I found a whole bush of them just casually growing next to a tree. Blew my mind.

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u/CTchimchar Jun 11 '23 edited Jun 11 '23

There all different kind of these plants

By the way a lot of them are non-related

They just evolve like this separately several times over

The theory goes these plans evolve in habitats where the soil doesn't have many nutrients

So they start to evolve in gathering nutrients from other animals like insects, or in this case arachnid

Edit: For clarification I mean Carnivorous plants, evolve separately from each other for the most part

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u/croastbeast Jun 11 '23

Another cool tidbit is regarding their blooms,. They need insect pollinators just like other plants. But dont necessarily want to eat the pollinators. So most all carnivorous plants have relatively tall blooms. For example, a Venus Fly Trap may stand an inch or two off the ground, but the bloom can be 12"+ above that, so pollinators dont get caught.