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    The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant native to the temperate and subtropical wetlands of North Carolina and South Carolina, on...
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    Droseraceae (section Dionaea)
    genus Drosera. The family also contains the well-known Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) and the more obscure waterwheel plant (Aldrovanda vesiculosa), both...
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    Dionaea muscipula 'Fused Tooth' is a cultivar of Dionaea muscipula, the Venus flytrap. It has webbed teeth that appear in the summer. "International Carnivorous...
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    prey, absorbing the resulting available nutrients. Venus flytraps (Dionaea muscipula), pitcher plants, and bladderworts (Utricularia spp.) can be seen...
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    Dionaea muscipula 'Sawtooth' is a cultivar of Dionaea muscipula, the Venus flytrap that has deeply divided "teeth". It was formally described and registered...
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  • Dionaea muscipula 'Wacky Traps' is a cultivar of Dionaea muscipula, the Venus flytrap. Dionaea muscipula 'Wacky Traps' was a clone produced by Cresco Nursery...
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    Dionaea muscipula 'Bohemian Garnet' is a cultivar of Dionaea muscipula, the Venus flytrap. It is an F2 cross between Dionaea 'Royal Red' and Dionaea 'Sawtooth'...
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    List of Venus flytrap cultivars (category Dionaea cultivars)
    Dionaea muscipula 'Akai Ryu' {Ron Gagliardo} Dionaea muscipula 'Alien' {Guillaume Bily} Dionaea muscipula 'B52' {Barry Meyers-Rice} Dionaea muscipula...
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  • fires are a mode of clearing (e.g. New Caledonia). Venus fly trap (Dionaea muscipula) – this grows low to the ground in acid marshes in North Carolina...
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    depolarization to be propagated by chloride ions. Some plants (e.g. Dionaea muscipula) use sodium-gated channels to operate plant movements and "count"...
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  • The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant. Venus Flytrap or Venus Fly Trap may also refer to: Venus Fly Trap (band), a British alternative...
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    californica Torr., 1853 This genus contains a single extant species. Dionaea muscipula Soland. ex Ellis, 1773 There are around 208 species here: Drosera...
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  • Neher, Erwin; Hedrich, Rainer (February 2016). "The Venus Flytrap Dionaea muscipula Counts Prey-Induced Action Potentials to Induce Sodium Uptake". Current...
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  • sensing of their environment. Mechanoreceptors aid the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula Ellis) in capturing large prey. Mechanoreceptor proteins are ion channels...
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    the genus. Some of these are shared with the related Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), which suggests a close evolutionary relationship. The tentacle-covered...
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    Iott, K.; Schwab, W.; Semersky, F.E. (1969). "Digestive secretion of Dionaea muscipula (Venus's-Flytrap)". Plant Physiol. 44 (3): 367–371. doi:10.1104/pp...
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    look like traps of the carnivorous plant called "Venus fly trap" (Dionaea muscipula). This species lives in the depths of Pacific Ocean, and has been...
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    Catopsis Catopsis berteroniana Darlingtonia Darlingtonia californica Dionaea Dionaea muscipula Drosera Drosera anglica Drosera brevifolia Drosera capillaris...
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    pollination strategy occurs in Rudbeckia hirta. The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) presents a spectacular example of thigmonasty; when an insect lands...
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    in 2017 by neuroscientist Greg Gage who connected Mimosa pudica to Dionaea muscipula, better known as the Venus flytrap. Both plants had electrical wiring...
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    Butomus umbellatus (flowering rush) Caltha palustris (marsh marigold) Dionaea muscipula (Venus flytrap) Drosera (sundews) Iris pseudacorus (yellow flag) Lobelia...
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    Plants, his second-to-last work before his death. Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) Waterwheel plant (Aldrovanda vesiculosa) Bladderwort (Utricularia)...
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    pyrophilum, sandhills lily Eupatorium resinosum, pine barrens thoroughwort Dionaea muscipula, Venus flytrap Sarracenia alabamensis, Alabama canebrake pitcher plant...
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  • Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) leaf...
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    Venus's fly trap, Dionaea muscipula, showing the touch-sensitive insect trap in action...
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    The bright leaves of the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) attract insects in the same way as flowers....
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    flypaper of the genus Pinguicula whereas others like the Venus flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, actually move and are triggered by the unlucky insect walking across...
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  • (August 1989). "On the mechanism of trap closure of Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula Ellis)". Planta. 179 (1): 32–42. doi:10.1007/BF00395768. PMID 24201419...
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    Taxonomy', Carl Linnaeus. Ellis also gave it the scientific name of Dionaea muscipula. Later, his essay Directions for bringing over seeds and plants, from...
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    plant and is before the letters from John Ellis (who gave it the name Dionæa muscipula) to The St James's Chronicle, a London newspaper and Carl Linnaeus...
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