TerraForums Venus Flytrap, Nepenthes, Drosera and more talk
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Well, that is rated R. The clean version goes, they named it Venus because Venus was the goddess of beauty and they thought this plant was "beautiful".
Well, Venus was the Roman goddess of love (hence the term, venereal) and it may have something to do with lonely, heat-stroke-deranged, field-bound botanists "hallucinating" that Dionaea's trapping leaves resembled women's . . . um, er . . . naughty bits ("tipitiwitchets"); again, I can't help but wonder about the particular company they had been keeping . . .
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