Carnivorous Plants
We know about the plants which are useful and some gives flowers to us but there are some plants which are carnivorous also.
Image via Wikipedia
Image by worakvia Flickr
Carnivorous plants obtain some nutrients by trapping and digesting some invertebrates and sometimes small frogs and mammals.Carnivory has been documented in atleast 9 plant families and 600 species. Traps work in different variety of ways:
- Flypaper(sticky/adhesive traps):These kinds of plant leaves are in stalked glands that excude sticky mucilage.
- Lobster pot: Traps of crockscrew plants are twisted tabular channels line with hair and glands.
- Suction Traps:Leaves in shape of bladder with hinged door lined with trigger hair.
- Snap Trap:Venus flytrap and water wheel plants are hinged leaves that snap shut when trigger hair are touched.
- Pitfall Traps:Pitcher plant has these kind of leaves as its leaves are folded deep very slippery pool with digestive enzymes.
Image via Wikipedia
10
Liked it
Liked it
12 Responses to “Carnivorous Plants”
On March 6, 2009 at 9:30 am
very informative!!!I never knew about it
On March 6, 2009 at 9:48 am
They sound scary. Thanks for the information.
Christine
On March 6, 2009 at 1:17 pm
yeah, right, sounds scary…
On March 6, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Used to read about them in school…Thanks for the article with photographs!!
On March 6, 2009 at 9:30 pm
a very informative one, i learned something new today.
On March 8, 2009 at 8:10 am
informative… nice & little scary
On March 8, 2009 at 10:01 am
There is so much that we do not know about. Thanks for enlightening . Very informative.
On March 8, 2009 at 11:13 am
Yeah, growing carnivorous plants is an exciting hobby. I have mostly venus fly traps and pitcher plants (of the Nepenthes variety)…Thanks!
On March 11, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Very interesting topic. People say there are man-eating plants in African jungles. More research needs to be done about them.
On March 11, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Great work! Amazing story. Very intersting piece..1st pics: very funny face.haha..her eyes scary
On March 12, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Thanks everyone for liking my post:-)
On March 24, 2009 at 5:28 am
i really loved reading this photo-article on carnivourous plants. until now i was only familiar with venus flytrap and sundew, but your article has increased my knowledge. thank you very much for posting it in to read. MINDBLOWING!
Post Comment