How a Venus Flytrap Snaps

Chris Gondek pastes in a few sentences: "A team of scientists led by a Harvard mathematician say they have solved one of the plant world's most intriguing mysteries: how the Venus flytrap snaps shut. Using a high-speed video camera and computer modelling, the team found that the flytrap employs an ingenious trick to slowly build up elastic pressure in its leaves, like the stretching of a rubber band, and then snap at the slightest provocation."

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Flytrap

[christopherfinke]

It's been my experience that a Venus Flytrap will snap when he's been around Les Nessman for too long.