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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Carnivorous plants

Carnivorous plants are certainly the most strange plants in the world. Various specialized bodies for the capture and digest insects. Most of the organic material charge to the trapped insects, and not from the soil through the roots. Each type of plant developed his own unique mechanism to capture prey. Insectivorous plants include, among others.: Sundew, Pinguicula, Sarracenia, Venus Flytrap, Utricularia, Nepenthes. More and more people interested in breeding in the home of these extraordinary plants. Some are easy to farm, others require experience and financial resources. It should at least know these carnivorous plants.