Most of you are surely acquainted with the Venus Flytrap, biological name Dionaea Muscipula and its amazing carnivorous, feeding habits, but how many of you are familiar with other hunting carnivores plants? Meet the Utricularia or the Bladderwort plant that has a trap working at almost 100 times the speed of a Venus Flytrap. The interesting facts…
The species Catopsis belongs to the family Bromeliaceae and the Tillandsioideaev subfamily. The name derives from “kata” the Greek word for “hanging down” combined with “opsis” or “appearance”. You can find varieties of Catopsis from Florida, running parts of Brazil in the East, as well as the Caribbean. Kingdom Plantae (Plants) (Unranked) Angiosperms (Unranked) Monocots (Unranked) Commelinids Order…
Tropical pitcher plants, popular name monkey cups, fit in the Nepenthes carnivorous plants species having pitfall traps. They include a verified list of 130 prevalent varieties in China, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Madagascar, Australia, India, Seychelles, Borneo, and Sumatra. They derive the name “monkey cups” due that you can often see monkeys drinking rainwater from them. Kingdom Plantae…
Drosera, usually famous as the sundews, encompasses one of the biggest varieties of carnivorous plants, having over 194 species. The members of the Droseraceae family attract, arrest, and absorb insects through stalked mucilaginous glands spread over the surface of their leaves. The insects go to enrich the meager mineral nutrition of the soil wherein they grow….
Pinguicula carnivorous plants, more popularly known as the butterworts, are a species of carnivorous plants that employ their sticky, glandular leaves to entice, trap, and absorb insects to compensate for the meager mineral nutrition they get from the environments. At present, it has eighty known species. Of these, twelve belong to Europe, nine to North America,…
The genre Heliamphora carnivorous plants have 23 varieties of pitcher plants that are widespread in South America. Everyone knows the species group as “sun pitchers,” because of the misguided opinion that the Heli of Heliamphora derives from the Greek Helios, meaning “sun”. Actually, the name is a derivative of helos, meaning marsh. Therefore, a more precise translation of their scientific…
Drosophyllum is a type of carnivorous plant having a single genre, Drosophyllum lusitanicum (Portuguese sundew or dewy pine). It looks akin to the related group Drosera (the sundews) and to the more distant cousin Byblis (the rainbow plants). Kingdom Plantae (Plants) (Unranked): Angiosperms (Unranked): Eudicots (Unranked): Core Eudicots Order Caryophyllales Family Drosophyllaceae Chrtek, Slavikova & Studnicka Genus Cephalotus…
Cephalotus follicularis is the single specie of the genus Cephalotus and they call it the pitcher plant. The adapted leaves form the pit-fall traps and many names exist for this plant, including, the flycatcher plant, the Albany pitcher plant, the moccasin plant, and the Western Australian pitcher plant. Kingdom Plantae (Plants) (Unranked) Angiosperms (Unranked) Eudicots (Unranked)…
Darlingtonia California is also known as California pitcher plant, cobra plant, or cobra lily California is a genus of animal-eating plant, the only member of the genre Darlingtonia from the family of the Sarraceniaceae. It inhabits Northern California and Oregon, grows in marshes, and seeps with cold running water. This plant has an unusual classification as due to its natural…
The North American Pitcher plant or Sarracenia is a type of carnivorous plant that habits the great lakes, the eastern seaboard, Texas, and southeastern Canada, most of its varieties growing in the southeast states. Kingdom Plantae (Plants) (Unranked) Angiosperms (Unranked) Eudicots (Unranked) Asterids Order Ericales Family Sarraceniaceae Genus Sarraceniaceae Anatomy The leaves of the North American Pitcher plant have…
Perhaps the Pitcher plant is the most mysterious leaf in the whole wide universe. With its unique ability to obtain food, it has inspired multitudes to reshape their concept of how nature really works. Kingdom Plantae (Plants) Subkingdom Embryophyta Division Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants) Subdivision Spermatophyta (Seed Plants) Class Angiosperms (Flowering Plants) Subclass Monocotyledons (Monocots) Families…
The Venus flytrap or Dionaea Muscipula is a meat-eating plant that inhabits the subtropical swampland of the United States East Coast. It grasps its victims, mainly insects, and arachnids, with a trapping arrangement fashioned by the terminal section of each leaf of the plant, triggered by minute hairs that exist on their internal surfaces. Kingdom Plantae (Plants) (Unranked) Eudicots…