What are pitcher plants?

Plants

jug are carnivorous plants that capture food using the pitfalls built into them through evolutionary design. You can find them in America, so in Africa, Asia and Australia, and usually grow in swamps, swamps and areas waterlogged, acidic soils. Pitters have developed a carnivorous habit of compensating poor soil nutrition, but are also able to absorb nutrients through their simple root systems. In addition to growth in nature, jug plants are grown in many botanical gardens as a form of natural insect control and can serve the same purpose in the home and also decorative. In botanical gardens, pitches are usually grown in a warm, humid internal environment. In both cases, the leaves of the plants turned on top of each other to form a high, distinctive, "jamachers." The jugs are often striped with red to attract insects and are lined with fine hairs and grooves so as soonAnd in some cases, the plants exclude in some cases to be excluded in the doors in need. imprisoned insects and later consume some of them.

Insect traps of the pitcher can be quite large, striking and decorative. Some specific varieties are cultivated for use as houseplants, although the extensive spread of pitchers is usually not successful. Because the jugs grow in protected swamps, biologists are trying to leave them in situ because they form an important part of the mulberry environment. Plants are reproduced dist. The pollen poll from their dark red flowers that grow along long stems that push the flowers well up above the leaves.

Specialized carnivorous plant nurseries grow and sell pitcher plants to the general public along with instructions for their care. Together with other plants for eating meat do not need pitcher plants to survive the meat, POKUDs are offered proper soil nutrition, and work very well as unusual looking decorative plants. Despite popular fiction, jug plants never care for people to eat, but they will consume insects, small frogs, and sometimes mice and birds if they can lure the plant.

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