An excellent greenhouse or windowsill plant used by the Victorians in their glasshouses for pest control. The fleshy yellowish green leaves are covered in a greasy secretion to which the insects are attracted.

They get stuck to the leaf and will be slowly digested by enzymes. The plant also produces very attractive bright pink flowers. Consumes whitefly and sciarid fly.

Cultivation; This plant is not hardy and needs to be kept inside, either on a north or east facing windowsill or in a greenhouse tucked beneath the plants so that it is slightly shaded. It needs to stand in a little saucer of water all the time in the summer (about 1 cm deep). The leaves produced in the summer are quite large. In the winter those leaves will die off and a winter rosette of non-carnivorous leaves will be produced. Always water with rain or distilled water.