Opraxia: Plant

The Opraxia plant is a wild and viscous species, but it is well know for protecting the flora and fauna it grows in. A protecter if you will. This fly trap will eat foreign species of plant and insectoids to the environment. 
This plant seems to have some kind of primal instinct to protect their lands, as if they have some kind of intelligent understanding of their world, and morality. 

"I told my boy all about my grandfather's astounding and incredible reasearch on these plants. And I told him that the Opraxia plants were just like him. He'd asked me if it was because his hair was bushy, the wee thing, or if it was because he liked steak dinners. I explained that it was because the plant was inclined to portecting things in its natural, and it was my son's nature protect everyone."~ Henrick Opraxia

Basic Information

Anatomy

The flytrap is a flowering plant best known for its carnivorous eating habits. The “trap” is made of two hinged lobes at the end of each leaf. On the inner surfaces of the lobes are hair-like projections called trichomes that cause the lobes to snap shut when prey comes in contact with them. This type of movement is called thigmonasty—a nondirectional plant response to being touched. To prevent the plant from wasting energy if prey isn’t actually there, the trap will only shut when the trichomes are touched multiple times. The hinged traps are edged with small bristles that interlock when the trap shuts to ensure the prey can’t squirm out. There are other carnivorous plants in the wild, but the Venus flytrap is one of the very few that exhibits motion to actively trap its prey.

Growth Rate & Stages

These plants grow to be about the size of a grown man, adapting to digest larger foreign outliers in it's environment.

Ecology and Habitats

These pants thrive in humid, tropical conditions.

Dietary Needs and Habits

The Opraxia  flytrap gets some of its nutrients from the soil, but to supplement its diet, the plant eats insects and arachnids. Ants, beetles, grasshoppers, flying insects, and spiders are all victims of the flytrap. It can take a Venus flytrap three to five days to digest an organism, and it may go months between meals.

Behaviour

The opraxia plant tends to lean toward digesting larger creatures such as people if they deem a threat to the land, as if it has an intelligence to understand intention.

Conservation Status

These species are rare in lands beyond Vitaln, discovered by Henrick in the Sweetway Forest.

Discovered by

Henrick Opraxia