The growing cycle of a Fly Traps follows the 4 seasons with a bunch of different types of traps growing in each. In the spring, as the Fly Traps awake from dormancy, the Fly Traps will produce a rosette of small leaves that surround the surface of the ground with a trap at each tip. The Fly Traps are usually not too enormous at this point, perhaps two or four inches across. It is also at this time that a long spike that has several white flowers will appear.
As summer sets in a variant type of leaf is made. Now, instead of hugging the ground, taller, more upright leaves start to grow holding the traps several inches above the soil. The traps also change in appearance, being larger overall and having a semi-circular 'notch' in the back. New leaves with traps are constantly being made to replace the older, dying ones.
Once the days start to unhurried down and the temperature starts to drop in fall, a smaller, flat rosette is made once again, it is very alike to that of the spring flowering. The Fly Traps now gets ready for dormancy.
In the winter, the Fly Traps are half evergreen and will have few to several leaves depending on how cold it gets. The leaves are quite tolerant of frost, but extended frost will eventually cause them to shiver and die. In the underground, the Fly Traps still remains quite active. A bulb (with a few scales), alike to a tiny lily, is resting and building up strength to start growing even larger the following spring. Finally, this cycle repeats again.
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Venus Fly Trap Grows!
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