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1x Large Adult Plant: Giant Venus Flytrap "B52" Dionaea Muscipula Cultivar photo review
Erick H., Yukon, OK (Verified Customer) May 24, 2023
June 4, 2023
perfect condition
It looks great they're doing good the delivery was smooth I gave you all five stars.
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1x Large Adult Plant: Red Dragon Venus Flytrap “Akai Ryu” Dionaea Muscipula Cultivar photo review
Bryan N., Goffstown, NH (Verified Customer) May 12, 2023
May 29, 2023
This is a short note to let you know the plants arrived fine (on schedule) and look great! Thank you, especially that each had a double crown (B52 has...More
This is a short note to let you know the plants arrived fine (on schedule) and look great! Thank you, especially that each had a double crown (B52 has some more smaller ones too). It seemed like a lot of moss, but I wet it all figuring you knew your material better, and happy I did, for the extra pots.
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1x Large Adult Plant: Giant Venus Flytrap "B52" Dionaea Muscipula Cultivar photo review
Bryan N., Goffstown, NH (Verified Customer) May 12, 2023
May 29, 2023
This is a short note to let you know the plants arrived fine (on schedule) and look great! Thank you, especially that each had a double crown (B52 has...More
This is a short note to let you know the plants arrived fine (on schedule) and look great! Thank you, especially that each had a double crown (B52 has some more smaller ones too). It seemed like a lot of moss, but I wet it all figuring you knew your material better, and happy I did, for the extra pots.
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1x Adult Plants: Giant Venus Flytrap “Flexx” Dionaea Muscipula Cultivar photo review
Stacy B., Paducah, KY (Verified Customer) March 13, 2023
March 25, 2023
Super Impressed
My Venus Flytrap came in a couple of days and she has a lot of beautiful perfect traps (leaves). Also packages with my plant was very detailed instru...More
My Venus Flytrap came in a couple of days and she has a lot of beautiful perfect traps (leaves). Also packages with my plant was very detailed instructions on caring for her. I will never shop anywhere else for Carnivorous plants.
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3x Well-Started Plants: Giant Venus Flytrap “King Henry” Dionaea Muscipula Cultivar photo review
Lisa S., New Haven, IN (Verified Customer) March 20, 2023
March 24, 2023
Good Morning! I got my shipment yesterday and LOVE all the plants. They’re extremely healthy. Instructions are concrete and don’t leave anything unans...More
Good Morning! I got my shipment yesterday and LOVE all the plants. They’re extremely healthy. Instructions are concrete and don’t leave anything unanswered. The “kit” is abundant and the setup video is quite helpful in condensing the written directions nicely. Then again, I’m a visual learner so it was great to have. Can you please juts look at this current “out of the box” setup and let me know if anything looks amiss? If not, I’ll just continue to move forward and happily await their growth. Thanks much! Lisa
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1x Large Adult Plant: Red Dragon Venus Flytrap “Akai Ryu” Dionaea Muscipula Cultivar photo review
Lisa S., New Haven, IN (Verified Customer) March 20, 2023
March 24, 2023
Good Morning! I got my shipment yesterday and LOVE all the plants. They’re extremely healthy. Instructions are concrete and don’t leave anything unans...More
Good Morning! I got my shipment yesterday and LOVE all the plants. They’re extremely healthy. Instructions are concrete and don’t leave anything unanswered. The “kit” is abundant and the setup video is quite helpful in condensing the written directions nicely. Then again, I’m a visual learner so it was great to have. Can you please juts look at this current “out of the box” setup and let me know if anything looks amiss? If not, I’ll just continue to move forward and happily await their growth. Thanks much! Lisa
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Venus Flytrap Instant Collection Builder -- 3x Plants of Different Cultivars photo review
Venus Flytrap Instant Collection Builder -- 3x Plants of Different Cultivars photo review
Venus Flytrap Instant Collection Builder -- 3x Plants of Different Cultivars photo review
Venus Flytrap Instant Collection Builder -- 3x Plants of Different Cultivars photo review
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Chris F., West Terre Haute, IN (Verified Customer) February 28, 2023
March 3, 2023
3 amazing Venus Flytraps
The random plants I received were Red, Green Giant, and Flexx. All the plants look healthy, came packed with tons of long fiber moss, and 3 net cups. ...More
The random plants I received were Red, Green Giant, and Flexx. All the plants look healthy, came packed with tons of long fiber moss, and 3 net cups. The red plant is super vibrant. Highly recommend carnivorousplants.com I will definitely be doing business with them again.
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1x Large Adult Plant: Red Dragon Venus Flytrap “Akai Ryu” Dionaea Muscipula Cultivar photo review
PJ G., Pearl, MS (Verified Customer) November 19, 2022
December 1, 2022
So far, so good! Can't wait to see how it does in the Spring. I appreciate the instructions. Each time I've had a question, the answer was found in th...More
So far, so good! Can't wait to see how it does in the Spring. I appreciate the instructions. Each time I've had a question, the answer was found in the instructions. Thank you!
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1x Large Adult Plant: Red Dragon Venus Flytrap “Akai Ryu” Dionaea Muscipula Cultivar photo review
Leo B., Poughkeepsie, NY (Verified Customer) December 31, 2022
November 23, 2022
Exactly as Represented
Your Sales Photo is exactly what I received...! I'm very happy to now have this Adult Plant. It's started acclimating and is now growing well next to...More
Your Sales Photo is exactly what I received...! I'm very happy to now have this Adult Plant. It's started acclimating and is now growing well next to a newer, younger VFT since repotting
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Nepenthes St. Gaya – Carnivorous Pitcher Plant photo review
Veruzka C., Crandall, IN (Verified Customer) November 6, 2022
November 20, 2022
The plants look really good. Excellent quality.
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Nepenthes Alata - Carnivorous Pitcher Plant photo review
John H., Somerset, NJ (Verified Customer) September 14, 2022
September 17, 2022
Hey, it seems that the Nepenthes will recover. Thanks for the advice. Also, I just received the new order of N. alata and N. gaya. They look fantastic...More
Hey, it seems that the Nepenthes will recover. Thanks for the advice. Also, I just received the new order of N. alata and N. gaya. They look fantastic. Here's a pic after I just opened the box. Thanks again. Thank you. I now realize that accidental direct sun exposure damaged the first Nepenthes. I'll definitely be buying more from you in the future and recommending you to friends.
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Nepenthes St. Gaya – Carnivorous Pitcher Plant photo review
John H., Somerset, NJ (Verified Customer) September 14, 2022
September 17, 2022
Hey, it seems that the Nepenthes will recover. Thanks for the advice. Also, I just received the new order of N. alata and N. gaya. They look fantastic...More
Hey, it seems that the Nepenthes will recover. Thanks for the advice. Also, I just received the new order of N. alata and N. gaya. They look fantastic. Here's a pic after I just opened the box. Thanks again. Thank you. I now realize that accidental direct sun exposure damaged the first Nepenthes. I'll definitely be buying more from you in the future and recommending you to friends.
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Spoonleaved Sundew (Drosera Spatulata) photo review
Huet K., Springboro, OH (Verified Customer) August 1, 2022
July 23, 2022
Received my 3 sets of spoonleaved sundew in good time. They are healthy and the roots were wrapped up in wet spagnum moss. Looking forward for them to...More
Received my 3 sets of spoonleaved sundew in good time. They are healthy and the roots were wrapped up in wet spagnum moss. Looking forward for them to produce dews.
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Cape Sundew (Drosera capensis) photo review
Huet K., Springboro, OH (Verified Customer) August 1, 2022
July 23, 2022
Healthy Sundew
I potted my cape sundew in the sphagnum moss and the net pot that came with it. Within hours it had caught a bunch of those nasty gnats. The plant is ...More
I potted my cape sundew in the sphagnum moss and the net pot that came with it. Within hours it had caught a bunch of those nasty gnats. The plant is healthy and of a good size. I plan to get more.
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Spoonleaved Sundew (Drosera Spatulata) photo review
Gail S., Oak Ridge, TN (Verified Customer) July 12, 2022
July 21, 2022
Awesome
My 3 Sundew arrived quickly and packaged perfectly. Thank you! Unfortunately, my old eyes aren't what they used to be and these are so tiny, I can't ...More
My 3 Sundew arrived quickly and packaged perfectly. Thank you! Unfortunately, my old eyes aren't what they used to be and these are so tiny, I can't tell if they are planted correctly. They don't seem to be opening up and are still in the ball like when I unwrapped them. I wish you had an unpacking video like my VFT. But it's not your fault I can't see them.
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Why Purchase From CarnivorousPlants.com?






We’ve been in business selling carnivorous plants full time since 2009.

When you make a purchase from our website, you are supporting an American family-owned local business. Our plants put food on our table and make our livelihoods possible. God bless America and long live the USA.







We only sell tissue-cultured, propagated, and seed-grown plants.

We never have and never will possess any wild-harvested plants in our facility. Part of what makes this hobby exciting for us is knowing we are doing our part to preserve nature through educating customers and providing them with genetically superior plants that have withstood the tests of time and demand.





We offer the most generously-sized carnivorous plants on the market.

The top photo shows a Venus flytrap we recently shipped to one of our customers. The bottom photo was emailed to us from a customer showing a competitor’s flytrap they bought and received. Both plants were labeled “large” on the respective websites they were purchased from. The photos speak for themselves.

You can rest assured that when you receive a “large” plant from us, it will indeed a large (if not larger) plant. We walk the extra mile to ship customers the largest plants available in the market. In fact, one of our “large” plants would likely be classified as a “monster” or “mother plant” on a competitor’s website for triple or quadruple the price if they listed the identical plant.







Free shipping!

Believe it or not, each of our carnivorous plants comes with free standard shipping, which typically takes between 2-6 days upon purchase. Due to the sheer volume of plants we ship, we have negotiated shipping rate savings, which we pass onto our customers. Expedited and overnight options exist for additional cost.







We breed some of the rarest and most desirable cultivars.

We offer rare cultivars of certain plants that are highly sought after by collectors. For example, we are fully stocked with the King of all Venus flytraps: the famous B52. We also have Dente, King Henry, and Akai Ryu (Red Dragon) varieties in stock at all times.







Our carnivorous plant prices are the lowest on the market.

We offer the lowest carnivorous plant prices on the market. We can afford to do this due to the sheer volume of plants we sell. We sold over 2MM individual plants in 2020 alone. Since we breed and propagate all of our own plants, we pass the savings along to our customers.







We only sell stable, healthy, and hardened plants.

One of the biggest problems in the carnivorous plant industry today is that many specimens are grown and sold in conditions that are very gentle. Unfortunately, many customers do not have the ability to match these gentle conditions that many of the plants they purchase have been grown in their entire lives. As a result, many hobbyists purchase carnivorous plants that needlessly die–not because carnivorous plants are difficult to keep alive and grow, but because the plants being purchased have not been hardened. Our hope is that our state of the art nursery will create a revolution in the carnivorous plant industry in the USA– permanently changing this so that carnivorous plants, not just ones sold by us, but by other plant vendors as well, will be sold in more hardened conditions so that more collectors may enjoy this hobby without as many setbacks.







Our plant inventory is consistent and well-stocked.

We estimate the carnivorous plant hobby is rapidly growing at 15% per year. We are the largest carnivorous plant sellers in the world by volume. In our state of the art facility, we strive to maintain consistent and stable year round inventory to quench our customers’ insatiable demand for plants. Each plant you see on our website is available for sale.







Our return policy protects customers.

Each order submitted through our website is backed up by our competitive and robust return policy. In the extremely rare event something happens to your shipment as a result of USPS or FedEx screwing up, we will immediately replace your entire shipment without any cost to you.


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The case for meat-eaters: if eating meat is a sin, then why are some plants carnivorous?
— Siddharth Katragadda, Author

Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods. However, carnivorous plants generate energy from photosynthesis. Carnivorous plants have adapted to grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs. Charles Darwin wrote Insectivorous Plants, the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants, in 1875. Carnivorous plants can be found on all continents except Antarctica, as well as many Pacific islands.

Five basic trapping mechanisms are found in carnivorous plants:

  • Pitfall traps (pitcher plants) trap prey in a rolled leaf that contains a pool of digestive enzymes or bacteria.
  • Flypaper traps use a sticky mucilage.
  • Snap traps utilise rapid leaf movements.
  • Bladder traps suck in prey with a bladder that generates an internal vacuum.
  • Lobster-pot traps, also known as eel traps, force prey to move towards a digestive organ with inward-pointing hairs.

These traps may be active or passive, depending on whether movement aids the capture of prey. For example, Triphyophyllum is a passive flypaper that secretes mucilage, but whose leaves do not grow or move in response to prey capture. Meanwhile, sundews are active flypaper traps whose leaves undergo rapid acid growth, which is an expansion of individual cells as opposed to cell division. The rapid acid growth allows the sundew tentacles to bend, aiding in the retention and digestion of prey.