We got a Venus flytrap plant for Christmas. It seems to be doing surprisingly well in our kitchen window, despite the lack of flies to catch this time of the year. The only thing it catches is dust. But it is nevertheless growing new leaves and even something that I think looks like a flower stalk.

The new leaves look different from the original, toothy ones. They’re longer and slimmer, and instead of one of those trap things, there’s just a bit of perfectly ordinary leaf at the end. Perhaps these leaves will go traps later, but it doesn’t really look like it. I guess since there are no flies to catch, it makes sense for the plant to not waste its energy on growing traps.