Green cultivar Dionée attrape-mouche

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Dionaea muscipula 'All Green' leaf

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Dionée 'All Green' fly trap

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Flowers of Dionaea muscipula 'All Green

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Dionaea muscipula 'All Green', a green carnivorous plant

Have you fallen in love with Dionaea muscipula 'All Green'? There's no need to go looking for it in the swamps of North Carolina. This lime-green Droseraceae is a cultivar, a variety developed in the laboratory by scientists.

How to recognize Dionaea muscipula 'All Green'?

A small carnivorous perennial, Dionaea muscipula 'All Green' is no more than ten centimetres high and as wide. In summer, its upright foliage gives it an upright habit. During the dormant season, however, the plant is gathered in on itself.

Leaves grow in rosettes from an underground bulb. The spatulate base of the leaf blade measures up to twelve centimetres. It supports the trap: two lobes, connected by a thick vein and hemmed with cilia. Unlike botanical dionaea muscipula and certain cultivars, such as dionaea muscipula 'Red Dragon, Dionaea muscipula All Green is not tinted red. It is entirely lime-green, even in bright light.

The flowers are white, as with the other varieties. They bloom in spring, at the top of a 20-centimetre flowering spike.

Dionaea muscipula 'All Green' is harmless to humans and animals larger than its jaws. It is, however, a fragile plant. Traps wear out after two or three closures. If you don't want to kill your fly-catching dionaea, you'll have to resist the temptation to test them!

Our maintenance tips

Dionaea muscipula 'All Green is not a tropical plant. In its natural habitat, it can withstand hot summers and sub-zero winters. It can be grown outdoors, even at our latitudes. If it freezes in your region, you'll still need to protect your specimen from the cold.

Watering

Water your plant generously during the growing season.

Dionaea muscipula 'All Green like to have their feet in water. You need to water them by capillary action at all times.

Get a planter or an unperforated container larger than your plant's pot. Place your Dionée attrape-mouche 'All Green in its pot.

Pour two or three centimetres of rain, demineralized or osmosis water into the larger container. Never use tap or mineral water. You'll kill your plant.

Don't let the largest container run dry. Add water when the level drops.

Reduce watering during dormancy.

The soil must always be kept moist. Water it from above before it dries out.

You can use rainwater. If you don't have any, you can use osmosis water or demineralized water. Never use tap or mineral water. They contain mineral salts that are fatal to your Dionée attrape-mouche 'All Green.

After watering, remove any stagnant water from the saucer.

Repotting

In spring, transfer your Dionaea muscipula 'All Green' to a larger pot, so that it can continue to grow.

Obtain a pierced plastic pot. Choose a light-colored pot to prevent the roots from getting too hot in summer.

Fill your container with a special potting soil for carnivorous plants. You can also make your own growing medium by mixing two-thirds blond peat, one-third draining material (river sand, perlite or vermiculite) and a little sphagnum moss. Moisten the substrate with rainwater and tamp lightly.

Plant your Dionée attrape-mouche 'All Green. Place the pot on a dish filled with rainwater.

Fertilization

Fertilizer is useless. Your Dionaea muscipula 'All Green' feeds on the insects that fall into its traps.

Prune

Over time, the traps blacken and die. You can remove them with your hands or with clean, sharp scissors.

After flowering, cut off wilted flowering stems at the base. You can do this by hand or with a clean, sharp tool such as secateurs or scissors.

Cutting

Cutting is carried out during the strong growth phase, generally in spring and early summer.

For annual repotting, divide your mother plant. Cut off a healthy part with at least one leaf and roots. Use a clean, sharp tool to facilitate healing and prevent disease.

Prepare a pierced plastic pot. Obtain potting soil for carnivorous plants or mix blond peat (2/3) and perlite (1/3). Fill your pot with the substrate, pack lightly and spray the surface with rainwater.

Make a pilot hole with a pick or pen, then plant your cutting, roots down.

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Information

Family	Droseraceae - Droseraceae
Type	Dionée - Dionaea
Species	Dionée attrape-mouche - Dionaea muscipula
Lifecycle	Perennial
Foliage	Evergreen
Exposure	Sun
Substrats	Humus soil Sandy soil Peat soil
Planting method	In pots
Categories	Rhizome Herbaceous
Tags	Beginner Small pot
Origin	North America
Hardiness (USDA)	10b
Leaf color
Flower color