Carnivorous Plant from my Childhood, Am I Crazy?

[Mime454]

Okay, I had this really cool carnivorous plant when I was little that I bought from a hardware store. It looked like a pitcher plant, with really small, green traps. What was interesting about this plant was that the pitchers had little lids on them that would close when a fly flew in.

This plant was very small, not more an 6" tall and its pitchers were about 1.5 inches. Can someone help me ID this plant so that I could look for another one?

 

[brancsikia339]

Dionaea? Heliamphora?

 

[Mime454]

I.imgur.com/e8jpT.jpg

I'm a terrible drawer but I mocked this up on my iPad to show what I mean. The lid on the pitcher actually closed when a fly entered. It wasn't any of the ones that you listed.

 

[frogparty]

You're crazy. There isn't a pitcher plant that does that. Sorry bro

The flytrap is the only cp with an acid hypersensitivity response.

 

[Mime454]

You're crazy. There isn't a pitcher plant that does that. Sorry bro

The flytrap is the only cp with an acid hypersensitivity response.

I'm starting to think this, because I've asked other places too. But I have a pretty vivid memory of is plant.

 

[frogparty]

nope. sorry. I promise you

 

[Crazy4mantis]

only dionea, some drosera, aldrovanda, and utricularia show active movement. you may be thinking of how pitchers are closed before they are fully mature.

 

[agent A]

r u sure it was a carnivorous plant

some plants trap insects in their flowers to allow successful pollination

maybe it was jack-in-the-pulpit??

 

[frogparty]

jack in the pulpits dont have a hypersensitive response either

 

[ShieldMantid1997]

maybe it was a defensive response to being touched?

 

[frogparty]

nope. Sorry. Touch plants like Mimosas dont use the acid hypersensitive response because then their leaves would disintegrate. No pitcher plants have a response anything like that

I think you have a fancified memory from childhood about a plant that intrigued you.

 

[DETHCHEEZ]

From your drawing I want to say a Nepenthes

From your description thinking maybe Cephalotus / That would be one heck of a hardware store find

But neither one of them move

 

[TySAAAN]

The only two plants that snap shut are the venus flytrap and the waterwheel plant.

 

[Crazy4mantis]

Utricularia show some movement.

 

[Crazy4mantis]

Also sundews

 

[DETHCHEEZ]

Ok Utricularia traps do move

But you would have to have Superman vision or a microscopy to see that / LOL

I guess you can say Dews move

But I agree with "

Mantis"

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Not a hypersensitive response

It's more of the bug moving / Touching the sticky parts & pulling the plant/leaf onto itself

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Nether look like what OP is describing

 

[Crazy4mantis]

Acctually the plant moves to curl up around the prey. I think it's like the electric signals (or something like that) that are sent out by the tendrils that are touched trigger the other tendrils to move toward it. I had the full explanation in insectivorous plants (go charles darwin!) but I can't remamber right now.

 

[Crazy4mantis]

And some utric traps can reach 1 cm.

But back on topic, mime454's plant is probably just a mixture of separate memories of sarracenia and dionea. :lol:

 

[brancsikia339]

And some utric traps can reach 1 cm.

But back on topic, mime454's plant is probably just a mixture of separate memories of sarracenia and dionea. :lol:

I don't think mime454's plant exists. No pitchers close and only dionaea and sundews move enough that you can see them