Sarracenia ‘Scarlet Belle’ produces foot high ‘hooded pitchers’ that somewhat resemble a red and pink cobra with white markings. A carnivorous plant adapted to acidic bogs where nitrogen is severely limited, it produces a combination of water and sugar with digestive enzymes at the bottom of the pitcher. Insects looking for a drink of water or some sugar soon discover the hairs lining the inside of the hood prevent them from escaping the trap. The nitrogen and other nutrients released by the enzymes are absorbed through the lining of the pitcher. Old pitchers that are no longer functional are frequently filled with an interesting collection of insect exoskeletons (the acids don’t dissolve chitin). Experiments on a Venus fly trap (also a carnivorous plant) determined that Spam or other forms of meat spirited away from the dinner table provide a diet that is too rich; resulting in plant death. All Sarracenias are natives of the USA, with the center of speciation located in the Southeast. Most of them require a dormancy period coinciding with a period of freezing temperatures or drought. They all require acidic sphagnum moss‘soil’ and are frequently a component of quaking bogs. Water only with rainwater as the chemicals found within treated drinking water are toxic to this group of plants. Grow in full sun only.