Carnivorous plants

1. Carnivorous plants Presentation by Vidhyuth.v

2. What are carnivorous plants? • Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods

3. Different examples • Venus Flytrap • Bladderworts • Pitcher Plants • Sundew • Butterworts

4. Venus flytrap • Venus Flytraps form hinged traps at the end of their leaves and produce sweet-smelling nectar to attract small insects. An insect or spider crawling along a leaf triggers the trap by touching tiny hairs on its inner surface.

5. Venus flytrap • Venus fly trap

6. Bladderworts • Bladderworts are cultivated for their flowers which are simular to snapdragons and orchids. They grow in fresh water and wet soil because they need water to operate the bladder-like traps.

7. Bladderworts • Bladderworts

8. Pitcher plants • Pitcher plants lure insects into the cavities with the smell of sweet nectar or attractive colors. The waxy walls of the pitcher are slippery and lined with downward-point hairs that prevent the insects from crawling out

9. Pitcher plants • Pitcher plants

10. Sundew • Sundews are characterised by the glandular tentacles, topped with sticky secretions, that cover their leaf surface. Insects are attracted by the sweet secretions of the glands and become trapped by their flypaper-like stickiness. The insect dies while the plant secretes digestive enzymes that dissolve the insect and release its nutrients

11. Sundew • Sundew

12. Butterworts Butterworts are small plants with curled-edge leaves a few inches in diameter. Insects are attracted to the plant and become stuck in a sticky substance coating the leaves. The fluid contains enzymes that slowly digest the insect and provide nutrients to the plant.

13. Butterworts