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Carnivorous & Parasitic Plants
Carnivorous plants are plants that have adapted to life in nutrient poor soil by deriving their nutrients from consuming insects, arthropods and such while still deriving their energy from photosynthesis like normal plants. Parasitic plants depends on other plants for sustenance. All questions about carnivorous and parasitic plants can be directed here.
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Why can plants live in murky water?
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As light does not pass through the water, was wondering if the plant could grow well in muddy water?
What is the structure for a sundew plant?
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Predatory plants that use vey sticky hairs to stick their prey to them so they can devour it.
What is the height of the smallest sundew?
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The English sundew (D. Anglica) can grow from a range of 2-20 cm in height depending on the location.
How Does A Sundew Trap Digest And Absorb Insects?
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an insect touches a leaf of a sundew plant then the leaf slowly moves and covers the insect with all those sticky stuff and then digest it and the nutrients go in the plant by tiny holes leading to the roots.
Do plants need snails to grow?
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Yes, snails eat all kinds of vegetation, fresh and/or rotting, including vegetables and fruits.
What animal eats a sundew?
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insects (e.g flies & mosquitoes. If you have a sundew and want to feed it, you can use fostered bloodworm ,small crickets ,and ants.Never feed them raw meat this will kill them!
Does a sundew plant contain chlorophyll?
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Chlorophyll is the green substance in all plants that allows them to use the energy from the sun. Sunflowers included
How do sundew digest their food?
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They trap an inset on their sticky petals then send digestive juices.
How do sundew plant survive in their environment?
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by tricking bugs by the smell and traps bugs
Is there a plant that eats other plants?
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There have been various, however rare, instances of
certain species of plants eating animals, such as the Venus Fly Trap
However, the Venus Fly Trap usually only eats small insects, such as, and most obviously, flies.
Does anything eat carnivorous plants?
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that depends on your idea of what it means to be a vegetarian. when a carnivorous plant traps and digests an insect, it breaks down the chemical components of its prey so that it may use them to carry out its own chemical functions.
what this type of plant does is the same as any other plant, except that instead of waiting for the insect to die and break down into the soil, it takes the insect and breaks it down itself, and in the end, it has all the same chemical compositions of a normal plant and even has the same source. so as my personal opinion, no, eating a plant is the same as its ever been
A name of a carnivorous plant?
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Venus fly traps and Pitcher Plants are both carnivorous.
Are all carnivorous plants photoheterotrophic?
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yes, they are.
however they can be left inside with no sunlight but wont stand up.
What do sundews eat?
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insects (e.g flies & mosquitoes. If you have a sundew and want to feed it, you can use fostered bloodworm ,small crickets ,and ants.Never feed them raw meat this will kill them!
How do you use carnivorous plant in a sentence?
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'Herbivorous' is an adjectival form of 'herbivore' which basically means 'plant-eater'. Following are some sentences:
Rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses and giraffes are herbivorous mammals.
The hoatzin is a leaf-eater and can thus be regarding as herbivorous.
Herbivores are herbivorous while carnivores are carnivorous.
The sauropods were the largest dinosaurs and were herbivorous, possibly swallowing stones to crush tough vegetation in their guts.
Plants that live on other plants are called?
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Parasites live on a host in both plant and animal world. E.g. Staghorns live on the trunk of a host tree. Animal world a tick will live on a host animal i.e. a dog. Hope that helps.
