Have you ever wondered what time is like to be swallowed up by a Venus Fly Trap plant? Or what happens inside a pitcher plant? If so, then a visit to Savage Garden at Science Centre Singapore, where you can learn more about carnivorous plants, is in order.
Savage Garden, Science Centre Singapore
Make your way past Professor Crackitt’s Light Fantastic Mirror Maze at Hall A, Science Centre Singapore and you will find Savage Garden, a new exhibit that is all about carnivorous plants like the Venus Flytrap and Pitcher Plant.
Carnivorous plants have been a fascinating subject. After all, don’t plants make food by photosynthesis – who would have thought that plants can consume living beings.
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However, that is what make the Savage Garden exhibit so interesting to visit as it is an opportunity for encounters with nature’s strange and unusual plants.
Enchanting Encounters with Carnivorous Plants
At the entrance of Savage Garden, a group of animatronic carnivorous plants huddle together to welcome visitors.
You can watch them give an overview presentation about carnivorous plants, setting the stage for the rest of the exhibition.
Inside the Savage Garden at Science Centre Singapore
The Savage Garden exhibit isn’t very large but it does hold plenty of interesting information that will fascinate kids and adults.
Amongst the exhibits on display is a microscope that allows you to zoom in and have close up look at the bladderwort plant. Less well known than some of its carnivorous cousins, the plant has a thousand “mouths” that lurk underwater. This network of 2 mm to 5 mm bladders can catch dozens of insects at a time.
There are also multiple supersized models of carnivorous plants that allow you to get a close up look at how they work.
You can press buttons at the models that offer an interactive way to learn more about the various plants.
One such model shows how the pitcher plant mosquito lays its eggs within the pitcher’s fluids. The pitcher plant provides a safe space for the mosquito larvae while the larvae also help to break down prey that has been caught in the plant. The pitcher plant also benefits from the nutrients from the larvae’s poop.
Pitcher Plant Slide
Speaking of poop, there is pitcher plant slide that kids can climb up and slide down.
Just beware of the giant tree shrew perched on the rim of the slide and the pieces of digital poop that may flow down the slide too!
Showtime
Then take a seat in the garden-themed theatre to have the plants explain to you more about themselves.
Feeding Time
There is also a game station where you can imagine velcro balls are mosquitos and throw at a game board to pretend you are feeding a carnivorous plant.
Unfortunately, we weren’t very successful feeding the plant.
Step inside a Venus Flytrap
One fun photo spot that you should miss at Savage Garden at Science Centre Singapore is the Venus Flytrap exhibit.
Up to two persons can step inside the giant Venus Flytrap and its jaws will close up. You can imagine what it must be like to be a fly being swallowed up!
Exit Through the Corkscrew Plant
Finally, when it is time to leave, make your way through the white pool noodles that simulate the Corkscrew Plant’s “roots”. The plant’s “roots” are actually leaves and they form at one-way traps that is used to lure and force microscopic prey towards its “stomach” to be digested.
Want to visit Savage Garden At Science Centre Singapore? It is part of the usual admission to Science Centre Singapore.
