A carnivorous plant is a plant that derives some or most of its nutrients (but not energy) by trapping and consuming animals, especially insects and other arthropods. Carnivorous plants usually grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs and rock outcroppings. Charles Darwin wrote the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants in 1875. Carnivorous plant - Trapping mechanisms. There are five basic trapping mechanisms that have evolved in carnivoro ...

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• Carnivorous plant - Pitfall traps
• Carnivorous plant - Flypaper traps
• Carnivorous plant - Snap traps
• Carnivorous plant - Bladder traps
• Carnivorous plant - Lobster-pot traps
• Carnivorous plant - Borderline carnivores
• Carnivorous plant - Evolution
• Carnivorous plant - Ecology and modelling of carnivory
• Carnivorous plant - Classification
• Carnivorous plant - Dicots
• Carnivorous plant - Monocots
• Carnivorous plant - Cultivation
• Carnivorous plant - Pop culture

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There are five basic trapping mechanisms that have evolved in carnivorous plants. These are: Pitfall traps (pitcher plants), which trap prey in a rolled leaf that contains a pool of digestive enzymes and/or bacteria; Flypaper traps, which trap prey using a sticky mucilage; Snap traps, which trap prey with rapid leaf movements; Bladder traps, which suck in prey with a bladder that generates an internal vacuum; Lobster-pot traps, which use inward pointing hair ...

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Carnivorous plants are widespread but rather rare: there are only about 600 species, out of about 250,000 flowering plants. They are almost entirely restricted to habitats such as bogs, where soil nutrients are extremely limiting, but where sunlight and water are readily available. Only under such extreme conditions is carnivory favoured to an extent that makes the adaptations obvious. The archetypal carnivore, the Venus flytrap, grows under quite extreme environmental conditions. The soils in which it grows have nitrate and calcium l ...

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Although different species of carnivorous plants have different requirements in terms of sunlight, humidity, soil moisture, etc., there are commonalities. Most carnivorous plants require rain water, or water that has been distilled, deionised by reverse osmosis, or acidified using sulfuric acid. Common tap or drinking water contains minerals (particularly calcium salts) that will quickly build up and kill the plant. This is because most carnivorous plants have evolved in nutrient-poor, acidic soils and are consequently extreme ...

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The classification of all flowering plants is currently in a state of flux. In the Cronquist system, the Droseraceae and Nepenthaceae were placed in the order Nepenthales, based on the radial symmetry of their flowers, and their possession of insect-traps. The Sarraceniaceae was placed either in the Nepenthales, or in its own order, the Sarraceniales. The Byblidaceae, Cephalotaceae, and Roridulaceae were placed in the Saxifragal ...

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Elucidating the evolution of carnivorous plants is made difficult by the paucity of their fossil record. Very few fossils have been found, and all that do exist are either seed or pollen. However, much can be deduced from the structure of current traps. Pitfall traps are quite clearly derived from rolled leaves. The vascular tissues of Sarracenia show this quite clearly: the keel along the front of the trap contains a mixture of leftward and rightward facing vascular bundles, as would be predicted from the fusion of the edges of an ad ...

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Carnivorous plants are widespread but rather rare: there are only about 600 species, out of about 250 000 flowering plants. They are almost entirely restricted to habitats such as bogs, where soil nutrients are extremely limiting, but where sunlight and water are readily available. Only under such extreme conditions is carnivory favoured to an extent that makes the adaptations obvious. The archetypal carnivore, the Venus flytrap, grows under quite extreme environmental conditions. The soils in which it grows have nitrate and calcium l ...

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