10 PLANTS THAT EAT ANIMALS

10 PLANTS THAT EAT ANIMALS

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In the usual food chain, plants depend on sunlight, animals eat plants and bigger animals than prey on the smaller ones. However, some plants are exceptional in this case such that they feed on the animals themselves.

While beautiful hibiscus and all those peace lilies have found their way into top websites and magazines as the hottest home flowers, some other plants have remained a mystery in the course of their nature. In this video, we will be showing you ten of the plants that feed on animals.

10. Moccasin Plant

The Moccasin plant was originally discovered in the Southwestern region of Australia. Also called genus Cephalotus, this plant checks all the proper boxes for any insect that has fallen victim to it.

The Moccasin plant attracts insects with its sweet and nice scent which then lures them into the plant's moccasin shaped pitchers where the prey will be slowly digested. The plants usually confuse the insects with the lids of its pitchers having translucent cells that would cause insects to hit themselves silly while trying to escape the trap.

One feature that makes the Moccasin plant different and usual is its close relations to flowering plants like oak trees and apple trees, unlike other carnivorous pitcher plants that can be easily chalked up to convergent evolution.
9. Trigger Plant

Deriving its name from its unique and outstanding pollination method, the trigger plant seems to be one of the most strategized plants on this list. Whenever an insect gets to or into a trigger plant flower, it is hit with a column (club-shaped) which quickly springs up from beneath the petals.

An insect's preying and feeding usually disturbs some small filaments in the middle of the flower, thereby activating the club-shaped column. On the end sides of the column are female and male flower plants; the male plants deposit pollen in the insect while the female is being fertilized by pollen in the insect if the latter has been previously hit by another trigger plant.

One amazing thing about the trigger plants species is that they hit different parts of the insect's body which helps to reduce the risk of hybridization or self-pollination between trigger plants. This also means that an insect preying on one trigger plant species might be hit on the head while it might be stuck on the side when feeding on another trigger plant species (this makes way for deposition of right pollen into victim insects).
8. Portuguese Sundew

The Portuguese Sundew is becoming highly rare due to its wide range collection by those who love it as well as cases of habitat destruction. Also, this plant has been extinct from most of its previous strongholds in the Algarve region (it is also said to be present in Morocco and Spain).

To start with, the Portuguese Sundew differs from other species of sundews owing to the fact that it grows in stony, dry, and calcareous habitats instead of the acid conditions in bogs and marshes which are the normal habitats for other animal eating plants like Drosera rotundifolia (in Northern Europe).

However, in a similar fashion with other sundew species, the Portuguese Sundew catches its victim insects by entrapping them with the aid of a sticky substance which not only emanates from the leaves but also from the stems of the plant. Once the insects are trapped it becomes asphyxiated after which it dies and subsequently digested into the leaves of the plant.
7. Roridula

Roridula is a native South African carnivorous plant; this animal preying plant has a twist around it. The amazing thing about roridula is that it does not actually digest the insect captured, rather it captures the victim insects with its sticky hairs and leaves this task (of digestion) to a bug species known as the Pamaridea Roridulae (both plants have a symbiotic relationship).

Now, the question is, what does the Roridula plant get in return for capturing the insects? After digesting the insects, the Pamaridae Roridulae gives an excretion waste which is usually rich in nutrients; this is then absorbed by the Roridula plant. In recent times, there was a discovery of a Roridula plant fossils in the Baltic Sea region of Europe discovered to be over 40 million years old. This is a sign that the plant had widespread use during the Cenozoic Era than now and can also live for a huge number of years

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