Dionaea muscipula Lips & Lashes (Shipped Bare-Root)

Dionaea muscipula Lips & Lashes (Shipped Bare-Root)Dionaea muscipula Lips & Lashes captivates with heavily arched, mutated traps adorned with exaggerated cilia that frame the trap margins like dramatic eyelashes, while short triangular teeth deepen to dark red under sufficient light. This rare cultivar produces distinctive out turned trap edges that create an almost smiling appearancea morphological novelty that commands attention from serious collectors seeking unusual trap architecture and aesthetic

making it a prized specimen for collectors who demand both visual impact and reliable performance

Despite the deformed appearance

The interiors of mature traps are red

Aurora Borealis is a striking deviation from typical Venus flytrap breeding: a cultivar that produces predominantly white traps throughout spring and summer while maintaining the vigor most white-pigmented varieties lack

Traps average 3 to 4 cm on mature specimens with a deep purplish red coloration covering the entire plant including flower stalk and sepals when grown in 8 or more hours of direct sunlight

and the plant remains low-growing throughout the season rather than sending up erect summer foliage

Easily propagated by leaf and rhizome cuttings

who found this plant at a Carniflora open day in 2008

holding these strange reversed traps high on tall petioles

Marginal lashes start yellowish green and turn reddish purple with age

FTS Flaming Lips produces leaves up to 13 cm with robust traps up to 5 cm

This vigorous clone forms substantial rosettes and divides freely