Yes, I'm branching out. From Neps and Neps and more Neps, I've gone gaga over sarracenia, drosera and venus fly-trap (VFTs if they exists naturally in Malaysia, they'd be called Perangkap Lalat Puteri Gunung Ledang or Perangkap Lalat Mahsuri or Perangkap Lalat Tun Teja- SIGHS).
Unlike neps and sarracenia (which utilizes pitcher style traps to drown and digest their victims) Drosera traps their makan with tentacles topped with sticky goo. They shine in morning light so me being not so a morning person sometimes wakes up in time to see the morning light on them, they shine! More Drosera coming soon.
VFTs pulak uses bear-trap like traps. They're cute... Like kerang pontianak (cockels, bitten by a vampire with serious dental problem). They're doing OK, I guess as they survived the first week and then they started putting out new traps. Dia punya trap is triggered by stout hair looking like new under arm hair. 3 on each side. Sekali triggered will make them close slightly only. Then more stimulation (I just love that word, STIMULATION) is needed to make em go zippit and starts digesting the thing that stimulated the hair (sounds abit off, I know...)
So here's the good part... the pix...
Drosera Adelaea (doing the aerobics kick and shining in the morning light)
Drosera spatulata (note the clenched end of the big leaf, it's digesting something!)
Venus Fly-trap Red Form (VFT)
VFT Tall and Thin Green Form
VFT Short and Stout Green Form (saying- feed me Lisham, feed me!)
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