No they can't. They need sunlight for that.
Photosynthesis
plants make their own food by photosynthisis which uses the suns energy to produce sugars to make food
Plants
Plants in the desert use photosynthesis to make food just like any of the plant in the world.
What Plants Need to Make FoodPlants make food from carbon dioxide and water during photosynthesis.
it can respire but it cant photosynthesis
Think about at night do the plants instally die when it get dark? they don't. But if the it was dark for a longer period of time like a few weeks they might die.
Photosynthesis
plants can make food through photosynthesis
You need to put the leaf in the dark to prove that plants need sunlight to make their food.
Perhaps to use it when it is dark. (They produce their food by way of sunlight.)
The process in which plants make their food is known as photosynthesis.
all plants make food by the help of sunlight
Green plants photosynthesize, which means they trap the energy of the sun in the chloroplasts and use that energy to make sugars. Photosynthesis occurs in two stages: the light stage in which chlorophyll is activated by sunlight, and the dark stage in which sugars are made. However, the dark stage can occur either in the light or in the dark.
Most plants GROW the same in dark just like in light but when it comes to food and flowering the plant will need sunlight
the process by which green plants make their food is photosnythesis.
Plants use the energy in sunlight to make food