Spotlight on Dionaea ‘Red Piranha’

This Venus flytrap has proved a huge success. Let’s take a closer look at its trap and its origins…

California, 1995. Following numerous cross-breeds between ‘Dentate Traps’ Dionaea and entirely red clones from various sources, the grower Edward Read, a botanist with a passion for carnivorous plants, obtained a considerable number of seedlings.

It was the most vigorous, and the one with the most serrated traps, that was selected and then propagated… and so ‘Red Piranha’ was born!