"He's been interested in carnivorous plants since he was about four years old. Now, 30 years later, he's believed to operate the largest carnivorous greenhouse in Colorado. It's not his only claim to fame," the KRDO reports.

"He's sold the world's most expensive carnivorous plant for $4,500 to an anonymous buyer in 2019. It was a hybrid Nepenthes pitcher plant, and Harris named it "Leviathan" after his brother, Levi.

"He just set his next world record. In the 2022 Guinness Book of World Records, you'll find a big photo of Harris next to the "World's Largest Venus Flytrap" on record."

"Jeremiah Harris holds the Guinness World Record for the largest Venus Fly Trap and has one of the most extensive collections of carnivorous plants in the US," the Florae Collaborative reports.

"He regularly travels to see these plants in the wild and has some incredible stories. On top of all this, he is the founder of the Colorado Carnivorous Plant Society!"

"Packed to the rafters with carnivorous plants of all shapes and sizes, one greenhouse local to Colorado Springs stands as a testament to both a passion gone wild as well as a concerted effort to preserve rare plants for the future," the KOAA News5 reports..

"For Jeremiah Harris, a Colorado Springs local, the journey to collect, preserve, and propagate as many carnivorous plants as humanly possible started way back when he was a kid.

"Following one truly exceptional day in his early years, Jeremiah's parents gifted him with a single Venus flytrap, which kicked his passion into high gear."

"The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant native to subtropical wetlands on the East Coast of the United States in North Carolina and South Carolina.[4] It catches its prey—chiefly insects and arachnids—with a trapping structure formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves, which is triggered by tiny hairs (called "trigger hairs" or "sensitive hairs") on their inner surfaces.

"When an insect or spider crawling along the leaves contacts a hair, the trap prepares to close, snapping shut only if another contact occurs within approximately twenty seconds of the first strike. Triggers may occur with a tenth of a second of contact.[5] The requirement of redundant triggering in this mechanism serves as a safeguard against wasting energy by trapping objects with no nutritional value, and the plant will only begin digestion after five more stimuli to ensure it has caught a live bug worthy of consumption.

"Venus flytraps are by far the most commonly recognized and cultivated carnivorous plant, and they are frequently sold as houseplants. Various cultivars (cultivated varieties) have come into the market through tissue culture of selected genetic mutations, and these plants are raised in large quantities for commercial markets. The cultivars 'Akai Ryu and 'South West Giant' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit." (Wikipedia)

"My name is Jeremiah Harris and I love carnivorous plants. I’m from Colorado and have had the privilege of seeing CPs growing all around the world," says Jeremiah on the Carnivorous Plant Resource.

"I have been growing carnivorous plants since 1992. I now grow over 1000 different varieties carnivorous plants of nearly every genus. I have 3 greenhouses and many grow chambers filled to the brim with CPs. Every plant I ship out has been grown and treated with the upmost care."

Most giant vegetable varieties cultivated in one garden: world record set by Patrick Teichmann