What is Aldrovanda?

Aldrovanda is a genus of water carnivorous plants with one known existing species, a. Vesiculosa , a water wheel plant. These plants can be found in warm, standing water in Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe. They also cultivate hobby gardeners who are interested in water plants or carnivorous plants, and sometimes available from aquarium suppliers as well as body plant catalogs. One plant can produce numerous beliefs, each supported by air bladder to make a plant floating in water. At the end of each structure similar rays are placed a few leaves to create a trap similar to a trap produced by the famous Venus trap on the ground. Aldrovanda moves extremely rapidly and is the only water plant known to capture prey in this way. Like other carnivorous plants, aldrovanda adapted to the production of enzymes used to distribute their prey for digestion. Free floating in water have these plants access to noto the surviving nutrient supply.

These carnivorous plants rarely. When so, small white flowers hovering above the water surface produce air bubbles. After a few hours above the water, the flowers are closing and falling below the surface, allowing the plant to produce seeds. Aldrovanda can also be reproduced by budding, and this reproductive method seems to be more common.

Although these plants are adapted to warm waters, they can tolerate cold winters. They do so by making small and very tight clusters of the leaves designed to break and drop to the bottom. The cluster bury in the mud to hibernate the while lighter leaves can float. Lighter leaves can be consumed by animals or can die in cold weather. When the weather warms up, buried volumes of the leaves appear, the sheet out and start to produce faith. This adaptive technique allowed aldrovanda to survive in the belowHe is bound where the weather in the winter months grows hostile.

Gardeners are interested in cultivation and. Plants can be grown in an aquarium or pool in the carnivorous plant garden, which may include other species such as plants in the family drosera , the sun.