Flytraps do best when grown outside, in full sun, in a saucer of pure (or EBMUD) water. Each trap can catch enough
insects to provide all its nutrients. However, each trap opens and closes only about 4 times. (So don't touch too much
and wear them out before they eat a bug!) The natural cycle of this plant includes a winter dormancy (it will blacken
and die back) - but it will regrow bigger & better each spring. Keep water in saucer year-round. Although the spring
flowers are beautiful, your plant will grow more quickly if you remove flower stalks as they emerge from the base.
Repot into bigger pot when it has outgrown its current pot. If you choose to keep your plant inside, keep it inside, in
bright sun, for only a limited period of time, as it needs the outdoors to catch sufficient bugs, receive proper sunlight,
& experience a cold winter. Both the flytrap cultivars 'B-52' and 'Red Dragon' ('Akai Ryu') sold at the UC Botanical
Garden are propagated using tissue culture methods by UC Botanical Garden volunteer propagators.