What kind of carnivorous plant are hermles to domestice house animals
like dogs and cats. I wanted to start a venus flytrap garden in an
aquarium and was afraid of what it may do to my cat or dog. What if
the animals ate the plants??
Thank you VERY much
George

(George B) wrote:

I wanted to start a venus flytrap garden in an
aquarium and was afraid of what it may do to my cat or dog. What if
the animals ate the plants??

http://www.humane-so-arizona.org/Poisonous%20plants.pdf

According to this, all parts of a venus flytrap are toxic if ingested.

I'd suggest nixing the idea of venus flytraps if you have animals.

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(George B) wrote:

I wanted to start a venus flytrap garden in an
aquarium and was afraid of what it may do to my cat or dog. What if
the animals ate the plants??

http://www.humane-so-arizona.org/Poisonous%20plants.pdf

According to this, all parts of a venus flytrap are toxic if ingested.

I'd suggest nixing the idea of venus flytraps if you have animals.


You'll probably have problem with pets and plants if you feed the plants
meat. Eventually Snoppy or Garfield will smell it, get curious and
probably redecorate your aquarium.

It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of carnivorous plants are poisonous, given
they would probably need protection from starving herbivores that wandered
into a bog with not much else edible around.

I have a carniverous plant query so might as well insert it into this
existing thread. My White Topped Pitcher Plant got trampled to the ground
by a racoon a year ago & never fully recovered; it tried but did not
succeed in producing even one full trumpet this rest of the year. It's
still alive; it produced long tall unfinished trumpets, but they never got
to the point where it could "eat." The "rootball" is minimal & merely
anchors it, I don't believe it gets ANY nourishment from the soil. So, is
there any chance this plant may still bounce back next year? Without
having caught even one moth or bug, it seems it'll have to be even weaker
next year than it was this past year so is just doomed. It was so pretty
before the racoon got it. Will I have to give up & get another one
altogether??

-paghat

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

My recommendation would be to foliar feed this plant, even through winter if any
part of it stays evergreen in your region. It should bounce back, but I find
this particular family of plants appreciates colonization, rather than specimen
settings. I think with regular foliar applications of seaweed it will recover.
See if you can find other plants to form a colony in the same family and plant
them nearby.


On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:51:58 -0800, (paghat)
opined:

I have a carniverous plant query so might as well insert it into this
existing thread. My White Topped Pitcher Plant got trampled to the ground
by a racoon a year ago & never fully recovered; it tried but did not
succeed in producing even one full trumpet this rest of the year. It's
still alive; it produced long tall unfinished trumpets, but they never got
to the point where it could "eat." The "rootball" is minimal & merely
anchors it, I don't believe it gets ANY nourishment from the soil. So, is
there any chance this plant may still bounce back next year? Without
having caught even one moth or bug, it seems it'll have to be even weaker
next year than it was this past year so is just doomed. It was so pretty
before the racoon got it. Will I have to give up & get another one
altogether??

-paghat

In article ,
wrote:

My recommendation would be to foliar feed this plant, even through
winter if any
part of it stays evergreen in your region. It should bounce back, but I find
this particular family of plants appreciates colonization, rather than
specimen
settings. I think with regular foliar applications of seaweed it will
recover.
See if you can find other plants to form a colony in the same family and plant
them nearby.

Thanks, will try foliered seaweed, never heard of doing that. It does live
in a colony of sorts, but it's the only white trumpet sarracenia, the rest
of the grouping consists of very strong Purple Pitcher Plants which are
much shorter (almost prostrate) sarracenias, plus a single not-as-strong
hybrid called ladies-in-waiting which in two years has remained rather
dwarfed. They used to share the bog with a cobra plant but it sent out
runners & spread willynilly so I had to separate those into their own
little bog (the cobra was also racoon-trounced but bounced back with
extreme speed).

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:51:58 -0800, (paghat)
opined:

I have a carniverous plant query so might as well insert it into this
existing thread. My White Topped Pitcher Plant got trampled to the ground
by a racoon a year ago & never fully recovered; it tried but did not
succeed in producing even one full trumpet this rest of the year. It's
still alive; it produced long tall unfinished trumpets, but they never got
to the point where it could "eat." The "rootball" is minimal & merely
anchors it, I don't believe it gets ANY nourishment from the soil. So, is
there any chance this plant may still bounce back next year? Without
having caught even one moth or bug, it seems it'll have to be even weaker
next year than it was this past year so is just doomed. It was so pretty
before the racoon got it. Will I have to give up & get another one
altogether??

-paghat

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 00:32:05 -0800, (paghat)
opined:


Thanks, will try foliered seaweed, never heard of doing that. It does live
in a colony of sorts, but it's the only white trumpet sarracenia, the rest
of the grouping consists of very strong Purple Pitcher Plants which are
much shorter (almost prostrate) sarracenias, plus a single not-as-strong
hybrid called ladies-in-waiting which in two years has remained rather
dwarfed. They used to share the bog with a cobra plant but it sent out
runners & spread willynilly so I had to separate those into their own
little bog (the cobra was also racoon-trounced but bounced back with
extreme speed).

There is not a plant I know of which cannot or does not benefit from foliar
fertilization. Seaweed has so many incredible properties, one of which is a
great range of trace elements, and can give a range of protection to plants
which are living on the cusp of a zone change. For example, here where I am, it
can be 8b-9a some years, 8a-8b some others. Doesn't sound like a wide range,
but it is. Seaweed can protect plants and help them through light frosts of 32
degrees better than if no seaweed had been administered throughout the seasons.

Try it. I'd be interested to know if or when you see new growth emerge.

Victoria