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Are there any carnivorous plants in the world? |
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Science > Botany |
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carnivorous plants, man-eating, exist, tree |
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Carnivorous plants (sometimes called insectivorous plants) are known as any of various legendary carnivorous plants that are large enough to kill and consume a person or other large animal. They derive some or most of their nutrients (but not energy) from trapping and consuming animals or protozoan where a large portion of them are insects and other arthropods. Carnivorous plants usually grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs and rock outcroppings. Charles Darwin wrote the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants in 1875.
Carnivorous plants are able to lure insects or animals to inadvertently approach them. After capturing them, carnivorous plants begin to digest, breakdown and absorb the hapless victims as nutrients to sustain their living. They attract the prey by bearing colorful leaf stripes, scent or nectar glands. Carnivorous plants do not possess a digestive system but they can produce digestive enzymes to breakdown the prey slowly and absorb the available nutrients. Additionally, over 300 protocarnivorous plant species in several genera show some but not all these characteristics.
It is said that one account of a man-eating tree appeared in the South Australian Register in 1881. Traveler Carle Liche recounted watching in horror as members of the Mkodo tribe of Madagascar offered a woman in sacrifice to the dreaded tree. Similar tales also reported about such trees in Central America, South America, Mexico and elsewhere.
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