Dionaea muscipula 'All Green', a green carnivorous plant
Dionaea muscipula 'All Green'
- Exposure
- Sun
- Hardiness (USDA)
- 10b (1.7°C ≤ T° < 4.4°C)
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Family
- Droseraceae
- Genus
- Dionée Dionaea
- Species
- Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula
Other name:Dionaea muscipula 'Soland'
Have you fallen in love with Dionaea muscipula 'All Green'? No need to go searching for it in the swamps of North Carolina. This lime-green Droseraceae is a cultivar—a variety developed in a laboratory by scientists.
How can you recognize Dionaea muscipula 'All Green'?
A small, perennial carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula 'All Green' does not exceed ten centimeters in height or width. In the growing season, its upright foliage gives it an erect habit. But during dormancy, the plant curls up into a compact form.
The leaves grow in a rosette from an underground bulb. The spatulate base of the leaf blade measures up to twelve centimeters. It supports the trap: two lobes, connected by a thick vein and fringed with cilia. Unlike dionaea muscipula botanical Dionaea muscipula and certain cultivars, dionaea muscipula 'Red Dragon' Dionaea muscipula 'All Green' has no red tint. It is entirely lime green, even in bright light.
The flowers are white, as in other varieties. They bloom in the spring at the top of a 20-centimeter flower stalk.
Dionaea muscipula 'All Green' is harmless to humans and animals larger than its traps. However, it is a delicate plant. The traps wear out after two or three closures. If you don't want to kill your Venus flytrap, you'll have to resist the temptation to test them!
Our care tips
The 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.
The 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 Venus flytrap '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 Venus flytrap '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.
Get a plastic pot with drainage holes. Choose a light-colored one to prevent the roots from getting too hot in the summer.
Fill your container with a potting mix specifically designed for carnivorous plants. You can also make your own growing medium by mixing two-thirds light-colored peat moss, one-third drainage material (river sand, perlite, or vermiculite), and a little sphagnum moss. Moisten the substrate with rainwater and pack it down lightly.
Plant your Venus flytrap 'All Green'. Place the pot on a saucer 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 spent flower stalks at the base. You can do this by hand or with a clean, sharp tool such as secateurs or scissors.
Taking cuttings
Propagation by cuttings 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.
Diseases / Threats
Information
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Exposure
- Sun
- Substrates
- Humus soilSandy soilPeat soil
- Planting method
- In pots
- Categories
- RhizomeHerbaceous
- Tags
- BeginnerSmall pot
- Origin
- North America
- Hardiness (USDA)
- 10b (1.7°C ≤ T° < 4.4°C)
- Leaf color
- Light green
- Flower color
- White
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