Carnivorous plant is a plant capable of capturing and collecting the bodies of victims needed components. The victims are mainly insects and crustaceans, but also small reptiles, amphibians and animals. They are carrying out the plants photosynthesis, but growing on soils poor in nitrogen and other elements needed for proper development. To capture and digest them are specially adapted leaves. They may take the form of, inter alia, jugs, snap traps, limes.

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Cephalotus follicularis

Cephalotus

Description

Cephalotus produces two types of leaves: not carnivorous leaves, in which there is a process of photosynthesis, and insectivorous pitchers - the insect traps. It is the sole representative of the family Cephalotaceae. The name of the plant comes from the Greek Kefalotos and Latin Cephalotus, which means a tiny head, which resembles the flower cefalotusa rod. The second part of the name means follicularis bottle and took the shape of the traps. Although cephalotus achieves little size, is very showy plant.

History

Cephalotus was discovered in 1791 by Archibald Menzies'a. Botanist in the late eighteenth century, went on an expedition to the south-western Australia, which are unique in the world position of this plant. Although cephalotus achieves small size, is very showy plant.

Environment

Cephalotus occurs on a very limited area along the coast of south-western Australia (a band of approximately 300 km in length and width about 50 kilometers inland) from Cape Richie after Augusti. There is a subtropical climate where sea, characterized by high temperature and humidity air.