Dionaea muscipula Black mamba

Product Description

Dionaea muscipula Black mamba is a cultivar resulting from a cross between “Wine Mouth” and G14 Dirk Ventham’s’. It has a lively, thin, and glossy green petiole, which provides a striking contrast with its deep, dark, and intensely black, coal-like traps. It has slender leaves, long teeth, and very large traps with the characteristic underlined line on the outer surface of the trap from G14 (very black in this case) and the dark colours of WineMouth.

Venus Fly trap Black mamba (Dionaea muscipula Black mamba) is easy to care for; full sun, stand in rainwater, no poking (this tires the plant out reducing its lifespan). They can live for as long as you look after them. Venus Fly traps do go dormant in winter, which is usually when they are thrown away. They are not dead, just asleep.

Dionaea muscipula Black mamba does exactly what it says on the tin. They produce nectar to attract insects. Their colouring has a similar effect. They usually have three trigger hairs on each side of the trap, and if two of these trigger hairs are stimulated, the trap is sprung. Increased movement causes the trap to close tighter and tighter. The insect is “squeezed” and the juice digested.

In the summer sit them in full sun, in- or outdoors, in a deep saucer of rainwater. In winter expect them to not look great. The leaves can turn black (remove), the plant could even go under ground, it is dormant. We recommend a cool, airy, light area, frost free, under 10°C is preferable, full sun if possible. During the dormancy period, the main risk to the plant is rotting caused by fungal diseases. It is therefore important to reduce the watering, just keeping the plant damp, but not to let the plant dry out completely.