I understand their normal conditions are in poor soil, which is why the flytrap, but why would good soil outright kill them instead of them ignoring it or maybe just doing slightly better?
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I’m not entirely sure it kills them, but I do know that growing in good soil means you wont see them grow the ‘flytraps’. They just come out with normal leaves. (I may be cobfusing this with pitcher plants)
Basically carnivorous resort to being carnivores because rheir soil is nutrient poor. They supplement the poor nutrients with insect prey. But the insect catching bits are highly specialised and use a lot of resources, so the plant tries not to grow them unless really necessary
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