Cultivar · genus Dionaea
Cupped Trap
Dionaea muscipula · ‘Cupped Trap’

Guide
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No cultivar-specific guide yet
Until someone writes one, this cultivar follows the Dionaea muscipula care below. If you grow ‘Cupped Trap’, a few honest paragraphs would give it its own voice.
Care recipe
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Care notes reviewed by Horta
- Light
- ai:claude-code
- Soil
- ai:claude-code
Direct sun
≈ every 3 days
High
5–30 °C
straight peat moss kept moist from the bottom
Division, leaf pullings, or seed
None; it feeds by trapping insects
Slow
White spring blooms on tall stalks held above the traps; needs a cool winter dormancy
Not yet documented
Toxicity is a species-level safety fact. This is where toxicity lives: every cultivar inherits it and none can override it.
Reference images
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PrimarySources: ai:claude-code
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