List of Venus flytrap cultivars

Typical variety of the Venus flytrap

'B52' produces some of the largest traps of any cultivar

The 'Dentate' cultivar

Dionaea muscipula 'Akai Ryu', Japanese for 'Red Dragon'

Venus flytraps are by far the most commonly recognized and cultivated carnivorous plant. They are sold as houseplants and are often found at florists, hardware stores and supermarkets. During the past ten years or so large quantities of cultivars (cultivated varieties) have come into the market through tissue culture of selected genetic mutations. It is through tissue culture that great quantities of plants are raised for commercial markets.

The registered cultivars include (name of registrant in braces):

• Dionaea muscipula 'Akai Ryu' {Ron Gagliardo}^[1]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Alien' {Guillaume Bily}^[2]
• Dionaea muscipula 'B52' {Barry Meyers-Rice}^[3]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Blanche Hermine' {Guillaume Bily}^[4]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Bohemian Garnet' {Miroslav Srba}^[5]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Clayton's Red Sunset' {Colin Clayton}^[6]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Coquillage' {Guillaume Bily}^[7]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Cupped Trap' {Steven Stewart}^[8]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Dentate Traps' {Barry Meyers-Rice}^[9]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Fondue' {Guillaume Bily}^[10]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Fused Tooth' {Peter D'Amato & Thomas Carow}^[11]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Green Dragon' {Marcus Erbacher & M. Stoeckl}^[3]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Holland Red' {Marcus Erbacher & M. Stoeckl}^[3]
• Dionaea muscipula 'JA1' {Julio Alberto González Domínguez}^[12]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Jaws' {Leo Song, Jr.}^[13]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Justina Davis' {Barry Meyers-Rice}^[3]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Korean Melody Shark' {Jang Gi-Won & Wook Hyon (Max) Yoon}^[14]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Korrigans' {Guillaume Bily}^[15]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Louchapates' {Romuald Anfraix}^[16]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Microdent' {Gayl Quenon}^[17] [originally published as Dionaea muscipula 'Microdents']^[18]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Mirror' {Dieter Blancquaert}^[19]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Orange Neat Trap' {Jae-Hwan Lee}^[20]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Petite Dragon' {Robert Ziemer}^[21]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Red Burgundy' {Marcus Erbacher & M. Stoeckl}^[3]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Red Neat Trap' {Jae-Hwan Lee}^[22]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Red Piranha' {Edward Read}^[23]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Royal Red' {Geoffrey Mansell}^[3]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Sawtooth' {Barry Meyers-Rice}^[24]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Scarlatine' {Lucien Blacher}^[25]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Scarlet Bristle' {Real Keehn Concepts}^[26]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Small Fast' {Jae-Hwan Lee}^[27]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Viper Trap' {Jae-Hwan Lee}^[28]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Wacky Traps' {Barry Meyers-Rice}^[3]

The Dionaea Dentate Traps Group includes registered cultivars bearing shortened, triangular teeth, such as 'Dentate Traps', 'Red Piranha', and 'Sawtooth'.^[24]

An unofficial list includes many more names, with more added annually. None of these "variation names" are officially recognized unless the name is properly documented, registered and accepted by the International Registration Authority for carnivorous plant cultivars, the International Carnivorous Plant Society.

Published but unregistered cultivar names include (name of nominant in braces):

• Dionaea muscipula 'Big Mouth' {Tony Camilleri}^[3]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Clumping Cultivar' {Peter D'Amato}^[3]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Dentate' {Peter D'Amato} [established as Dionaea muscipula 'Dentate Traps']^[3]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Dente' {Peter D'Amato} [established as Dionaea muscipula 'Dentate Traps']^[3]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Kinchyaku' {Katsuhiko Kondo}^[3]
• Dionaea muscipula 'Red Rosetted' {Peter D'Amato}^[3]

References

1. ↑ Gagliardo, R. (June 1996). A new cultivar of Dionaea muscipula Ellis. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 25(2): 50.
2. ↑ Bily, G. (December 2010). Dionaea muscipula ‘Alien’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 39(4): 117–120.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 Registered Cultivar Names: Dionaea. International Carnivorous Plant Society.
4. ↑ Bily, G. (September 2012). Dionaea muscipula ‘Blanche Hermine’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 41(3): 116–120.
5. ↑ Srba, M. (September 2007). Dionaea muscipula ‘Bohemian Garnet’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 36(3): 68–70.
6. ↑ Clayton, C. (March 2004). Dionaea ‘Clayton’s Red Sunset’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 33(1): 19–22.
7. ↑ Bily, G. (December 2010). Dionaea muscipula ‘Coquillage’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 39(4): 117–120.
8. ↑ Stewart, S. (September 2004). Dionaea muscipula ‘Cupped Trap’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 33(3): 83–89.
9. ↑ Meyers-Rice, B. (March 2000). Dionaea 'Dentate Traps'. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 29(1): 14–21.
10. ↑ Bily, G. (September 2011). Dionaea muscipula ‘Fondue’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 40(3): 95–98.
11. ↑ Carow, T. (December 2004). Dionaea 'Fused Tooth'. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 33(4): 100–101.
12. ↑ Domínguez, J.A.G. (December 2011). Dionaea ‘JA1’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 40(4): 136–140.
13. ↑ Song, L. (December 2001). Dionaea ‘Jaws’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 30(4): 111–116.
14. ↑ Gi-Won, J. & W.H. Yoon (June 2010). Dionaea ‘Korean Melody Shark’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 39(2): 36–45.
15. ↑ Bily, G. (June 2010). Dionaea ‘Korrigans’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 39(2): 36–45.
16. ↑ Anfraix, R. (December 2004). Dionaea 'Louchapates' (Dionaea 'Noodle Ladle'). In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 33(4): 100–101.
17. ↑ Quenon, G. (March 2008). Dionaea muscipula 'Microdents'. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 37(1): 22–26.
18. ↑ [Anonymous] (June 2008). Erratum: Dionaea ‘Microdent’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 37(2): 44–46.
19. ↑ Blancquaert, D. (September 2010). Dionaea ‘Mirror’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 39(3): 78–81.
20. ↑ Lee, J.-H. (June 2013). Dionaea muscipula ‘Orange Neat Trap’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 42(2): 66–70.
21. ↑ Ziemer, R. (June 2007). Dionaea muscipula ‘Petite Dragon’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 36(2): 53–56.
22. ↑ Lee, J.-H. (June 2013). Dionaea muscipula ‘Red Neat Trap’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 42(2): 66–70.
23. ↑ Read, E. (September 1999). New Cultivar Dionaea 'Red Piranha'. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 28(3): 99.
24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Meyers-Rice, B. (March 2000). Dionaea 'Sawtooth'. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 29(1): 14–21.
25. ↑ Blacher, L. (March 2012). Dionaea ‘Scarlatine’ (English: D. ‘Scarlet Fever’). In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 41(1): 27–30.
26. ↑ Real Keehn Concepts (June 2010). Dionaea ‘Scarlet Bristle’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 39(2): 36–45.
27. ↑ Lee, J.-H. (June 2013). Dionaea muscipula ‘Small Fast’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 42(2): 66–70.
28. ↑ Lee, J.-H. (June 2013). Dionaea muscipula ‘Viper Trap’. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 42(2): 66–70.