What are the adaptations of a Venus Flytrap?

Answer 1

Its structural adaptationsLeaf Base

• Venus fly-traps have two leaf parts: a leaf base and a leaf blade. A Venus fly-trap grows out of the ground with its broad and flat leaf base, which carries out photosynthesis.

Trapping Mechanism

• The second leaf part of a Venus fly-trap is its trapping mechanism, also referred to as the trap, leaf-blade or lamina.

  Ends of leaves are composed of two lobes hinged together that can open and close in order to trap a small insect.

Trigger Hairs

• Venus fly-traps usually have several trigger hairs growing on each trap lobe. When an insect lands on a Venus fly-trap and moves around, trigger hairs know that it is live prey that can be trapped and eaten.

Venus Fly-trap Teeth

• The egdes of a Venus fly-trap have teeth and look fingerlike. The teeth lace together when an insect is trapped by the plant.

Petiole

• The two leaf parts of a Venus fly-trap, the leaf blade and leaf base, are joined together by a small stalk called the petiole.

They have many sensitive trigger hairs.

The Venus Flytrap attracts insects to it by its bright colour and scent. When an animal triggers 2 of its trigger hairs inside one of its mouths (leaves) the trap shuts tight and the animal/insect is slowly digested over a period of around 10 days.
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Since the Venus fly trap lives in boggy, wet habitats, they have had to adapt to survive and live there. Venus fly traps have special hairs inside the trap that once touched, trigger the trap to suddenly shut. If the fly inside is caught, enzymes will digest the pray to get much needed vitamins that the bog does not have. The flies think the trap is a flower and fly into it without a second thought.

Answer 2

Carnivorous plants are adapted to particular nutrient poor environments, e.g. acidic bogs, because they gain important nutrients by capturing animals.

Different carnivorous plants have different capture mechanism that are adapted to particular types of prey, with the Venus Flytrap being adapted to somewhat larger prey with the caging capture mechanism as compared to sticky traps of other relatives.

Carnivorous plants have also developed specific digestive mechanism to achieve their carnivorous adaptation.

The mechanisms that trigger closure of the trap show some sophisticated prey selection adaptations so that closure occurs due to characteristic moments of live prey and not random litter. Further, closure is maintained due to adaptations sensing motion of captured prey.

The Venus flytrap tolerates fire well and native populations depends on periodic burning to suppress competition as well as return nutrients to the enviroment.

Venus Flytraps derive important nutrients (but not energy) by consuming ants, Spiders, beetles, and grasshoppers and flying insects.The food value lies primarily in the nitrogen and phosphorus containing compounds in these animals. The great majority of energy obtained by the plant is through the normal process of photosynthesis, but the adaptation of being carnivorous provides critical missing nutrients.

The Venus Flytrap and other carnivorous plants, e.g. the Pitcher plant, are adapted to grow in places where the soil poor and deficient in certain nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs and rock outcroppings.

Answer 3

The flytrap responds to touch by closing in on insects when they touch its trigger hairs located in its traps. The response to touch in plants is called thigmotropism.

Answer 4

It lives in places where there are low mineral levels in the soil, so it gathers these vital nutrients from catching and digesting insects.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

It is able to gain nutrients by catching insects, so is able to live in very poor nutrient soils.