How does a cobra lily trap insects?
The cobra lily is a pitcher plant meaning it holds water to attract insects inside its "pitcher". Once an insect is inside, the steep, slippery sides will not allow it to get out easily. Once the prey is captured, the plant releases a digestive enzyme to digest the prey.
Do purple cone flowers need to be thinned out to allow room for other varieties of wildflowers?
If your coneflowers are spreading through reseeding, they can be thinned out and replanted in other areas, to make room for other wildflowers. Since coneflowers are perennials, the best time to move them is in the spring and in the fall.
What are the advantage and disadvantages of fresh specimen?
the best answer of advantage of fresh specin to identify the color and to see what happened the materiel inside specimen...
Does a Venus flytrap make or obtain foods?
A Venus flytrap is a plant and can make most of its own food. However it lives in very nutrient (in terms of nitrogen compounds) poor environment and therefore obtains these chemicals by trapping insects.
What are the uses of hooks and spikes on a seed?
Hooks and spikes on a seed are used for their dispersal.They can attatch themselves on the furry coats and get carried over long distances.
Why do they have thisles in the prairis?
thistles stop plants from being eaten by grazing animals, which the plants dont "want".
How do you take care of a sundew?
first of it depends on the type of sundew you are growing they do need lot of light have them planted in a peat sand mix or spagnem moss only give it distilt or rain water need some humidity and lots of water use the water tray method fill a container with distil water and put your plant in it if it has holes in the bottom it it dosnt just water a every 3 days or so.
Sundews will eat worms if the worms are small enough to be held captive, killed and digested by the secretions from the sticky glandular hairs on the sundew leaf.
Why are sundew plants grown in sand?
For some experiments, Sundew plants are grown in sand to demonstrate the ability of the roots to absorb nutrients such as Nitrates from it's surroundings. Sand is used as pure silicon sand has no natural nutrients and therefore it is possible to add or not add Nitrate based plant foods to each specimen. Thus proving the roots absorption in a fair experiment.
Can pitcher plants live without humidity?
generally if there's no humidity the plant stops growing its pitchers.
Can carnivorous plants be eaten?
Currently, there is no known carnivorous plant that is lethal to humans. Although the chemicals inside the plant may make you feel nauseated, you are perfectly safe.
If, however, you ate the gullet of a filled pitcher plant, you would be ingesting many microscopic pathogens that could be harmful to your body. Medical assistance is advised in this case.
Carnivorous plants that are known to be eaten are Drosera rotundifolia, D. anglica, and D. intermedia. Several recipes regarding these plants are known in the proto-medicinal circles, along with a special liquor made from D. rotundifolia formulated by the Italians.
The genus Nepenthes is known (N. bicalcarata) to be used as rice cookers. The pitcher is snipped off, rice put inside, and cooked in a steamer. It is said that the rice has a special taste when cooked this way.
Where can you buy a sundew in Texas?
Walmart... its a seasonal thing.
Look in a florist or plant nursery.
What kinds of plants eat bugs in the rainforest?
Arthropod-eating plants known as carnivorous plants are the kinds of plants that eat bugs in the rainforest. Bladderwort (Utricularia), butterwort (Pinguicula), pitcher (Nepenthes), sundews (Drosera) and waterwheels (Aldrovanda) represent the common names of the most prevalent carnivorous plants. Carnivorous plants tend to fall into categories that describe the trapping mechanism, such as bladder (exemplified by bladderworts), combination (exemplified by flypaper- and snap-trapping sundews), flypaper (exemplified by butterwort), lobster-pot (exemplified by corkscrews [Genlisea]), pitfall (exemplified by pitchers) and snap (exemplified by Venus flytraps [Dionaea] and waterwheels) traps.
Is a sundew a producer or a consumer?
this question is debatable. Sundews can grow without consuming insects, so in a situation where they grow solely with nutrients from the peat moss or substrate they're growing in, it is solely a producer. However, many sundews only live a short time unless they are catching food. In the case where there is little growth unless it catches food, it would be arguable that the particular sundew would only be mostly a consumer. So for the average sundew, it is probably actually a mixture of the 2, if that is acceptable.
What happens if a carnivorous plant digests poisonous insect?
Most likely nothing will happen to the plant.
Can sundews absorb nitrates best through their roots or through their leaves?
Their leaves I think. Sundews grow in bogs where nitrates in the ground are in short supply, so basically they aren't as adapted in collecting nitrates through the soil. They adapted in order to obtain nitrates from else where. Insects that land on their leaves and are trapped by the sticky substance are digested for their nitrate intake.
What is the differences between venus flytrap and monkey cup?
A Venus flytrap is like a clam. It opens up to allow small insects to crawl inside and when they touch hair cells in the bottom it very quickly clams shut trapping the insect.
A monkey cup is like a pitcher plant -- a pitfall trap. It's a tall cylindrical cup. Insects crawl into the cup but cannot hold onto the sides and fall to the bottom where they drown in a liquid. There are very large monkey cups that can trap a mouse.
I think you mean "chylorophyl". It is a cell structure plants use to transfer sunlight into energy.
Where are sundew plants found and what are there living needs?
every continent except antarctica. thay catch there own food.
What type of substance do farmers use?
Farmers use a variety of substances to enhance crop production and manage pests. Common substances include fertilizers, which provide essential nutrients to plants, and pesticides, which help control insect and weed populations. Additionally, some farmers may use herbicides to target specific weeds and soil amendments to improve soil quality. Organic farmers often opt for natural alternatives, such as compost or biological pest control methods.