Do you have a Fun-Facts-To-Know? We will have these fun facts posted around the show, next to relevant plants when possible. Here is a blank Word template to put in your fun fact. Print it out and bring it to the show, or send an email to stephenwd@sbcglobal.net and he will make every effort to print them. They will be next to your plant, or wherever appropriate. Click here for the form.

What's a fun fact?
Here are a few examples:

• Drosophyllum is one of only a few CP that are not bog plants. In fact, it requires very dry conditions, and for this reason is a challenge to grow.

• Many frogs sit in pitchers and catch insects. Some Nepenthes capture frogs, and when the frogs are eaten, all that is left in the fluid are little matching frog-gloves. Apparently, the skin on the frog hands is resistant to digestion.

• Nepenthes pitchers are used to cook rice. They are filled with rice, then put into pots of boiling water.

• Nepenthes lowii is a bird toilet.

• Nepenthes bicalcarata (known for its two vampire-like fangs) can also be referred to as an ant plant. Ants burrow into the hollow tendrils and raise their young.

• Venus flytraps are native to a 70-square-mile area in North and South Carolina.

We will check your submissions for accuracy. Put your source on the back, or give credit to the author if you copied it from a book. We reserve the right to withhold a "fun fact" if we can't verify correctness.