Carnivorous plants

Carnivorous plants [ Botany ]

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Plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals

A carnivorous plant is a plant that obtain some or most of its nutrients (but not energy) by trapping and consuming invertebrate and vertebrate animals (especially insects). Each type of Carnivorous plant seems to have developed its own unique way of capturing prey, This might include a glue-like substance, special hairs, coloured orbs or even a special sweet scent but in general this plants may be subdivided into 2 major groups; those with passive traps and those with active traps. Once the prey has been captured the plants digest and absorb the nutrients. Carnivorous plants usually grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs and rock outcroppings

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