Pitcher Plant

Usually the Pitcher Plant can be found in an area where the Venus Flytrap grows. They are about knee high.

The Pitcher-plant is a carnivorous plant, a meat eater. Carnivorous plants usually live in nitrogen poor soils. They have 'learned' to augment the inadequate nitrogen available in the soil by capturing and consuming insects!

The inside of the tubular shaped leaf is lined with downward pointing hairs. These hairs block an insect from climbing up the tube and escaping. The fluid in the bottom of the tube contains digestive juices that will consume the insect prey.


On yesterdays blip someone asked what was the size of a Venus fly trap. They are tiny and about the size of your thumbnail.


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