Sarracenia Bug Bat is a hybrid cross that is very hardy and grows to a foot tall with multiple pitchers, forming tight clumps as they grow. The Bug Bat produces tall upright pitchers with green and red coloration and the openings are covered with sticky nectar.

The lid of the Sarracenia folds over the mouth like a hood, hence its’ common name “hooded pitcher plant”. The hood works in tandem with another unique adaptation found on the back wall of the pitcher.

Insects finding themselves at the mouth stare straight ahead at a beautiful series of open windows. The bug is at ease and it can venture further into the plant because it seems safe. Just look at how easy it will be to exit through one of these windows. Except not. An insect flies to the windows to avoid the overturned hood that has blocked an upward escape. Surprise, those windows are actually translucent portions of the pitcher, slick and unnavigable to panicking insects. Grasp as they might, the insect slips into the pitcher opening, and is digested by the eerily happy hooded pitcher plant.

A colorful and unique addition to your carnivorous collection.

The plants in the pictures are representative of the ones that you will receive, they are in 4 1/2 inch pots and  will be shipped potted.