Largest Carnivorous Plant
It s big enough to trap rats though it doesn t do it very often.
Largest carnivorous plant. There are over 700 species of carnivorous plants around the world. Plants in this genus also have traps that have evolved to capture some of the largest prey including creatures as large as frogs. Drosera commonly known as the sundews is one of the largest genera of carnivorous plants with at least 194 species. The insects are used to supplement the poor mineral nutrition of the soil in which the plants grow.
The giant montane pitcher plant nepenthes rajah is the largest meat eating plant in the world. 10 carnivorous plants you won t believe. Carnivorous plants are found all across the world on every continent except antarctica. World s most spectacular plants episode 2 of 14 duration.
In terms of sheer bulk the largest carnivorous plants are in the genera nepenthesand triphyophyllum these large vines can grow up to tens of meters long. But there s another taste it. Pitchers are the largest carnivorous plants and the largest pitchers grow in borneo. One known as nepenthes rajah is believed to be the largest meat eating plant in the world growing pitchers.
These members of the family droseraceae lure capture and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surfaces. The plant feeds on small aquatic invertebrates and use traps similar to those of the venus flytrap to capture the prey. Earth titan 229 169 views. Popularly called waterwheel plant aldrovanda vesiculosa is the only existing species of genus aldrovanda.
Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients but not energy which they derive from photosynthesis from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans typically insects and other arthropods carnivorous plants have adapted to grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients especially nitrogen such as acidic bogs.
