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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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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.

Why doesn't the sundew have to move as quickly as the Venus flytrap to imprison an insect?

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Sundews excrete a sticky mucilage from their leaves which ensnare insects that come into contact with it. Because the leaves are sticky enough to trap most prey, the leaves do not need to close quickly. The prey is effectively disabled before the trap closes. It is like having a glue trap to catch mice.

Venus Flytraps do not have this sticky mucilage and must snap closed fast enough to prevent the prey from escaping. This is more analogous to a traditional snapping mouse trap.

When a sundew plant catches its prey how does it dissolve it?

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The leaf, whatever shape, is covered in tiny hairs on the dorsal side. Each of these hairs ends in a tiny, bulbous gland. These glands secrete a viscous mucilage that contains sweet smelling sugar, which acts as a lure. When prey discovers the lure, they fly (or less often, crawl) onto the leaf, becoming ensnared in the liquid. Often, ground dwelling insects have legs powerful enough to escape, but flying insects are not built strong enough. Their wings may become ensnared as well. Limbs may be torn off in the struggle, etc. The mucilage enters the insects breathing holes and suffocates it, killing it. During the struggle, the tentacles curl around toward the center of the leaf, through a complex water pressure system inside the tentacles, impeding the preys escape. In some species, this water pressure system is included in the entire leaf, so the leaf may start to curl as well. Examples of this activity are: D. Regia, D. capensis, most Australian species, etc. The enzymes then dissolve all soft tissue inside the prey, and leak out and are reabsorbed by the plant.

Sundews have leaves which are covered in long hairs and each hair ends in a droplet of sticky fluid which causes insects to stick to the leaf.

Why don't other plants trap flies?

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carnivorous plants for example sundews

How do carnivorous plants reproduce?

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Carnivorous plants can reproduce sexually. They can also reproduce asexually, via leaf cuttings and root division. Some species do their own leaf cuttings naturally.

Sexually- Via flowers, like an other flowering plant.

Cuttings- When some pinguicula species leaves touch touch ground, they act as a cutting and sprout plantlets there. Pygmy drosera also produce specially designed leaves called gemmae that pop out of their place when water hits them. They rocket out into the air and land elsewhere, where they act like cuttings.

Root division- When the rhizome of a rhizome creating plant breaks in two, it produces a new plant out of the piece broken off. Eg: sarracenia.
1. Sexual reproduction

2. Vegetative reproduction

Are sundews and venus fly traps producers or consumers?

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Sundews and venus fly traps are producers but they are also consumers.

Since they make their own food by photosynthesis, they are producers.

To make that food, they must trap and digest insects and absorb the nutrients that are missing from the soil they grow in. That means they are also consumers.

What is the biggest animal a carnivorous plant can eat?

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In terms of size, the largest carnivorous plants are in the genera Nepenthes and Triphyophyllum. The Nepenthes rajah species is one of the largest and can eat frogs, geckos, skinks, and even mice.

One of the most amazing carnivorous plants and well known is the Venus flytrap.

Are venus flytraps and pitcher plants considered consumers?

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A Venus Flytrap is both a producer and a consumer.

It makes its own food by photosynthesis, which means it is a producer.

However, it must trap and digest flies or other organisms in order to get the nutrients to manufacture the food. That means it is also a consumer.

What do insect eating plants produce in order to trap and digest insects?

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Insect eating plants normally have modified leaves in order to trap insects - such as the "trap" in the Venus Flytrap, the "pitcher" of a Pitcher Plant and the sticky hair covered leaves of a Sundew.

What they all have in common though is the ability to produce digestive enzymes in order to break down the insect body and facilitate digestion of contents the insect; the exoskeleton is not digested.

How do plants grow in different lighting?

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Plants react differently to different colors of light.

Everyone knows plants are food factories, and most are aware that their energy source is light. This transformation of light into food is called photosynthesis. What may be news to you, however, is that the color of the light has a measurable impact on the amount of energy a plant absorbs. The reason for this is the colors in light have different wavelengths and those wavelengths, depending on whether they are short or long, provide different levels of energy.

The highest energy light is at the purple or violet end of the color light spectrum. Purple and violet lights have short wavelengths and thus lots of energy. At the other end of the spectrum, you will find red light which has long wavelengths and emits lower energy.

Regardless of whether the color of the light is red or purple the plant will absorb some amount of energy from the light it is receiving. Green light is the least effective for plants because they are themselves green due to the pigment Chlorophyll.

Different color light helps plants achieve different goals as well. Blue light, for example, helps encourage vegetative leaf growth. Red light, when combined with blue, allows plants to flower. Cool fluorescent light is great for cultivating plant growth indoors.

Knowing that different colors of light can affect what a plant does is important in a world that depends on plants for food. Advanced LED technology is now making it possible to control the kinds of colored light we provide plants in controlled environments.

We can now design lighting to encourage flowering or to produce higher fruit yields for example. Many plant functions can be enhanced and promoted just by knowing what light colors they react and respond to.

For a hungry world just waking up to the effects of Global Warming, this is critical. It will allow us to provide environmentally friendly alternatives to help improve crop quality and growth without having to resort to powerful fertilizers and genetically modified food.

Why do bryophytes require a moist environment for sexual repoduction?

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when the fern spore falls to the ground, it doesn't begin to grow fronds right away. Instead, the spore grows into a tiny heart - shaped plant called a prothallium. The prothallium does not look like a fern frond at all. If you observe closely, you may find prothallia growing in damp, shady places where there are ferns.

Are there carnivorous plants in Rhode Island?

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Rhode Island is home to many kinds of plants. They have several kinds of evergreen trees as well as wild flowers.

Do carnivorous plants produce food by photosynthesis?

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Yes. Just as any plant does. Bugs act like fertilizer- grow SUPER fast. My plants still grow even if they have no bugs or no openings to catch bugs, so photosynthesis keeps them going.

Carnivorous plant feed on other organisms to get only Nitrogen. They should undergo photosynthesis to get carbon and energy

Why do carnivorous plants need to eat although they usually photosynthesise?

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Just as there are animals that are carnivorous ( dogs, among many) and herbivorous, Horses, cows_ - there are plants that evolved to be meat-eating in their survival plan. They are always rare. The Venus Flytrap is an example. as far as is known, there are no Carnivorous plants large enough to pose hazards to human beings- outside of some jungle fiction- this is a very popular delusion.

Do carnivorous plants use photosynthesis?

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Carnivorous plants typically eat insects and protozoans (animal-like protists). Carnivorous plants can live in almost any climate because they do not receive their oxygen from the soil. Yes, if the conditions are not favorable, a plant may produce by the process of photosynthesis.

Carnivorous plants get nitrogen from prey not carbon or energy. They carry out photosynthesis to get energy and carbon

Why do carnivorous plants eat insects?

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The question is not why these plants use photosynthesis, it's why they are insectivorous! All plants use photosynthesis, but only some of them live in such poor soil that they have adapted this unusual method of obtaining nutrients.

Insectivorous plants get nutrition from more than one source. Insects are primarily a source of protein, and photosynthesis is a source of carbohydrates. Plants need a lot of carbohydrates, in order to grow.

Where are carnivorous plants found?

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Its hard to know,people are discovering new things every day so you cant know for sure.

Are sundew plants primary consumers and producers?

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The sundew is a secondary consumer. It consumes insects which eat plants and other insects.

It is also a producer. It makes its own food, trapping insects to get the needed nutrients for photosynthesis.