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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Nepenthes

Description

Nepenthes is climbing shrubs. The trap contains a fluid of the plant's own production, which may be watery or syrupy and is used to drown the prey. Although it looks that the pitchers are at the ends of the leaves, in fact the whole leaf is a pitcher. Assimilative function of the leaf petiole flattened took Chard. In some species jugs reach a height of over 20 cm.

History

Nepenthes was first time discovered and described in 1658, but due to the location of (difficult to access for humans), new species are found even today.

Environment

Nepenthes found mainly in Southeast Asia: Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Madagascar and New Guinea. Grow in marshy areas and equatorial forests, where there is high temperature and humidity throughout the year. Mountain variety, grown at an altitude more than 1,500 meters above sea level, where the temperature at night is reduced by 5 - 10 * C.

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