Nothing to do with carnivorous plants except it's pot is next to the sarracenia planter.
The Red Dragon Flower, Huernia schneideriana, is a beautiful succulent that grows well in Texas. I got a couple plants at a garage ale last year and now its everywhere. It's small red flowers are quite impressive.
I took a look at the flower with the pencam and found something troubling. Something is crawling around in it. It appears to be a fly larva. Or to put it more colloquially, there's a maggot in my flower.
What's going on here?
The flower smells like carrion to attracts flies for pollination. Perhaps a fly left an egg while pollinating or perhaps this is normal.
Groot growing Red Dragon Flower
