Word: rootstock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the most elaborate trapping mechanisms is that of the Dionaea (Venus's-flytrap). Indigenous to North and South Carolina, the Dionaea is a rosette of leaves, three to six inches across, rising from a rootstock more or less horizontally. The upper part of the leaf consists of two dished lobes whose outer margins have a row of coarse teeth. The plant appears to have been discovered by Colonial Governor Arthur Dobbs of North Carolina...
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