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INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS

INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS. MADE by MARIAM. COBRA PLANT.

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INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS

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  1. INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS MADE by MARIAM

  2. COBRA PLANT • The cobra lily is not only restricted to nutrient-poor acidic bogs and seepage slopes, but many colonies actually thrive in Ultramafic soils, which are in fact basic soils, within its range. In common with most carnivorous plants, the cobra lily is adapted to supplementing its nitrogen requirements through carnivory, which helps to compensate for the lack of available nitrogen in such habitats. • Because many carnivorous species live in hostile environments, their root systems are commonly as highly modified as their leaves. Darlingtoniacalifornica is no exception. The cobra lily is able to survive fire by regenerating from its roots, but despite this important role the roots are very delicate organs. While the temperatures in much of the species's range can exceed 25 °C, their roots die back after exposure to temperatures not much higher than 10 °C. Temperature plays a large part in the functioning of all plants, but it is very rare for individual organs to have such different temperature tolerances. The physiological mechanisms and evolutionary benefits of this discrepancy are not fully understood.[2]

  3. Venus flytrap • While the Venus flytrap is only one of some 600 kinds, or species, of meat-eating plants, it's probably the one you've heard most about. Venus flytraps are very special plants, because they have two ways of feeding themselves. They can do what most of the plants in the world do, using the energy from sunlight, water, soil compounds and carbon dioxide into food through photosynthesis. Venus fytraps, however, naturally grow in very wet places where the soil nutrients aren't the best. So over millions of years, they've developing the ability to eat insects for more nutrition. Growing your own Venus flytrap is challenging but fun.

  4. PITCHER PLANT • Now, we know that there are carnivorous plants, that trap insects and digest them. Unlike animals and humans, plants do not have limbs to catch prey. Then, what is the mechanism behind plants trapping insects? The interesting piece of information on the pitcher plant is that these plants have specialized structures that enable them to trap their prey. We have already discussed the different trapping mechanisms in different carnivorous plants. In case of pitcher plant, the trapping mechanism involves pitcher shaped structures formed at the end of the leaves or made of whole leaves.

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