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About Carnivorous Pitcher Plants
Some different species of pitcher plants will have leaves like fly paper to trap the insects instead of a tube trap. The flypaper leaves will have a sticky substance on them that the insects cannot get away from once they are stuck, and the pitcher plant simply digests the insect through the flypaper leaves. Some pitcher plant varieties look like flowers or tube flowers, some like sticks or stems with tentacles on them, and some look like green, leafy plants. All of them are very pretty to look at. You can find some great pictures of beautiful pitcher plants on the internet when you do a search for carnivorous plants or just for pitcher plants. Pitcher plants, like most carnivorous plants, live in swamps or bogs where there isn’t a lot of nitrogen in the soil. They get their nitrogen from the insects and other live bugs and arachnids that they eat. They have learned how to do this in order to live because a plant usually cannot survive without enough nitrogen. Pitcher plants are very cool to have at home, but they are very hard to find at local garden stores. This may be due to the fact that they are difficult to keep alive without extra special care, but for someone who buys an individual pitcher plant or two, it is much easier to give the plant the special care that it needs. You can find pitcher plants for sale at a couple of growers who have web sites on the internet. They can pack the plants up and ship them right to your door. Make sure that you do the research on the species of pitcher plant that you buy to learn how to properly care for it and you can keep a healthy pitcher plant alive and well for many years. Our articles are free for you to copy and distribute. Please give http://www.carnivorous--plants.com credit for the article. Other Articles you may like: |
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Pitcher plants are carnivorous, meat eating
plants that come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes. Pitcher
plants are known to grow around the world in different variations and
species. Most pitcher plants, including the North American pitcher plant,
is shaped like a rolled up leaf forming a tube called a pitfall trap.
Inside the tube are little hairs, or tentacles, that point toward the
bottom of the inside of the tube. This is so that the insects that get
into the tube cannot make their way back out. At the bottom of the tube of
a pitcher plant is a gel substance that digests the trapped insects that
make their way that far down into the tube, otherwise they just get stuck
and die and will eventually fall into the gel substance, and the pitcher
plant gets to eat its lunch anyway.
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