Please ID This Odd Plant

16 years ago

Got this as a gift recently, I was told it was a "fly trap", has little buckets hanging off each leaf. Do you remove the little buckets once they turn brown????

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growerman
16 years ago
it is a pitcher plant. It is a carnivorous plant that captures its little prey by lining its traps with downward pointing hairs. There are digestive juices at the bottom. I do not the exact type though.
weedwoman
16 years ago
It's a Nepenthes, one of the pitcher plants. Water and digestive juices fill the buckets and digest insects that fall into them. Nepenthes are tropical and like high humidity and warmth; I don't think they're especially easy to keep happy in the house.

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