This site is intended to help you identify your cultivars through images and descriptions.
The list of plants on this site is not exhaustive.

 

What does this site bring to the table compared to ICPS and CPPF?
Consider it as a fusion of these 2 sites, with the difference that I provide a little more complete descriptions than the ICPS, when necessary. The CPPF is a bank of images, but these are not verified: as a matter of fact, one can end up with photos that do not correspond to the cultivar that one seeks. My plants are bought from pros and/or their creators: thus, there are few chances that the cultivar I observe is not authentic (even if labeling errors can happen, one must be vigilant).

Finding that the world of dionaeas is a bit too "messy", I decided to create this site to "freeze" things a bit.

I've been growing carnivorous plants since 2011, and after having touched a little bit all the carnivorous plants, I wanted to specialize in dionaeas, first of all because there is a little nostalgic side, since, like most kids, I bought a dionaea as my first carnivorous plant, but also a certain fascination of the mechanisms involved in the closing of the trap.
I was very frustrated to have to throw away 15 out of 40 dionae when I started to look at the authenticity of my collection, and that these 15 dionae, observed over 1 year, did not fit the descriptions made at the ICPS, or even, did not match the pictures found on the CPPF.

So yes, one can say that this site emerged from a certain form of frustration.

What are the risks of giving a cultivar name to a dionea that is not one?
- Genetic pollution, and the diffusion of a mislabeled plant, with a false name.
- A stability of the plant not ensured. A plant is said to be "stable" when 3 years after the first characteristic traps, the plant keeps the traits that are attributed to it, and the cuttings (trap cuttings, or rhizome division) also have characteristic traps.
Be careful, it is not because a plant of garden center makes interesting traps since more than 3 years, that one can see him allotted the name of a cultivar already existing.

This site is in no way a growing guide for carnivorous plants, since I believe that too many factors influence the growth of plants, and therefore there are never optimal AND universal growing conditions, hence the need, in my opinion, to learn about the growing methods of other growers, then sort out the information, and try the combination of several factors, under different versions, until you find the conditions that suit you, and suit your plants.
There is no miracle recipe, there are only failures that lead to prosperity.

PS: my VFT are grown without any form of fertilizers.

If you want to see the evolution of my collection, I invite you to go on my instagram, and look at the pinned stories.