Apr 25, 2023
The Australian Pitcher Plant is a giant version of the Pitcher Plant, capable of trapping and digesting prey as large as rodents and small marsupials.
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The Bladderwort has small, hollow bladders that are capable of sucking in and digesting small aquatic organisms like crustaceans and tiny fish.
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The Butterwort uses a sticky secretion to trap and digest its prey, mostly small insects like gnats and fruit flies.
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The Cobra Lily has a long, slender hood that looks like a cobra's head, with a forked tongue-like appendage. Insects are attracted to the hood by its sweet scent and are then trapped and digested in the plant's 'mouth.'
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The Nepenthes has a modified leaf that forms a cup-like structure filled with digestive fluids. Insects are lured into the cup by the plant's sweet scent, and once inside, they are digested by the plant.
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The Pitcher Plant has a deep cavity filled with digestive fluids at the bottom of its modified leaves. Insects are lured into the cavity by the plant's sweet nectar, only to be trapped and digested.
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The Sundew is covered in sticky tentacles that attract and trap insects. Once an insect is trapped, the Sundew will curl its tentacles around the prey and digest it with enzymes.
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The Venus Flytrap Sea Anemone has tentacles that are covered in sticky mucus and can trap small fish and crustaceans.
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Probably the most well-known carnivorous plant, the Venus Flytrap lures insects into its trap with sweet nectar and then snaps shut its modified leaves to trap the prey.
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