Deciduous Trees
This family of trees “Deciduous” shed all their leaves and new leaves come out at every growing season. This type includes oak, ash and alder tree etc.
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Once an insect touches the tip of one of its leaves of the Venus fly-trap the leaf snaps shut and traps it. The plant then remains closed until the trapped insect has been digested. Insect-eating plants, such as the Venus fly-trap, usually exist on soil where there are only very small quantities of mineral salts.
The slippery edges of the pitcher plant precipitate the unwary insects into the liquid at the bottom of the pitcher made from its leaves. The trapped insect is gradually digested and absorbed by the plant. Insects are attracted to the plant by its smell. There are several different types of pitcher plant, all of which attract insects by their scent, and thus entice them into their traps where they can be absorbed. It is usually in soils which are lacking in nitrogen that insect-eating plants are found.
Insect Eating Plants
Insect-eating plants grow mainly in soils poor in nitrogen. They have evolved various methods of trapping insects and digesting their bodies to obtain nitrogen.
Sundew is a tiny, reddish bog-plant with round or oval leaves covered in sticky hairs. Insects that land on the leaves cannot fly away and the hairs close around them. Digestive juices break down the insect's body and the leaf absorbs the nutrients.
Bladderwort lives underwater. Its leaves have little bladders that open inwards by means of a tiny trap-door. Water fleas and other small creatures may swim into a bladder but they are unable to swim out again. They die, and the plant uses the products from their bodies.
The pitcher plants are large, tropical species whose leaves are modified into flasks or pitchers. Insects that land on the rim slide into the flask over the slippery, waxy coating and drown in the liquid at the bottom of the flask.
