The Ryno Pen

My venus flytrap started popping up flower stalks about a week ago.

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Oh, goody, thinks I. I wondered what the flowers would be like, so of course I took to the Intertubes.

Uh-oh.

Apparently flowering is likely to severely knacker, or maybe even kill, the plant. (As if the nasty case of sunburn all my carnivores got from unexpectedly-strong sun in the front window ledge wasn’t bad enough!)

So, it’s snippety-snip for the flytrap.

How would it have turned out?

Maybe a rare yellow

[Picture ganked from the very interesting nature bloggage of Nonprophet]

or the more usual white
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I’ll be dividing the plant soon as I get some more peat prepared, and you can expect a post about sundew seedlings soon.