A walk through Carnivero's greenhouses takes you far away from Texas.
The air is heavy with humidity. Bright green succulents sit on racks at your fingertips, beaded with a sticky fluid designed to capture insects. Ten-headed venus flytraps crane their mouths in your direction. Plants nursing pitchers of digestive acid hang in baskets inches away from your head.
You don't actually have to travel across the world to find these carnivorous critters. Carnivero's nursery, which houses thousands of varieties of rare tropical plants, is a 30-minute drive from downtown Austin. Its brick-and-mortar location opened to the public for the first time Saturday.
Carnivero has been in the Austin area for nearly a decade, but it has primarily operated as an online store.
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