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Carnivorous Plants
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Carnivorous Plants
Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Plants
Carnivorous Plants: An Introduction
Prey-Trapping Mechanism
Major Carnivorous Plant Families
Aldrovanda
Utricularia or Bladderworts
Pinguicula or Butterwort
Byblis or Rainbow Plant
Cephalotus
Darlingtonia
Drosera or Sundew
Heliamphora
Nepenthes
Sarracenia
Dionaea or Venus Fly Trap
Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Plants
Broadly speaking, a plant is a multicellular photosynthetic eukaryotic life-form that grows in permanent site absorbing water and nutrients from its growing media through a well-developed root system for its growth and development. All plants are members of the Plant Kingdom (Kingdom Plantae). There are different types of plants: small and big, seed-bearing and non-seed bearing, flowering and non-flowering, aquatic and terrestrial, epiphytic and lithophytic, parasitic and saprophytic, and so on.
It is believed that there are millions of plant species in existence on this planet Earth. However, approximately 4 lakhs species of plants are known to science till date. Out of these plants, about 95% are vascular, flowering and seed-bearing plants, those plants that we see around us every day. Rest 5% comprises of plants that are rare and are less known to the world.
Classification of Plants: Plants may be grouped into different categories based on their uses, functional characteristics, economic importance etc. One major classification that is based on the nutritional aspects of the plants is ‘autotrophic’ and ‘heterotrophic.’
Greek word ‘auto’ means ‘self’, ‘hetero’ means ‘different’ and ‘trophic’ means ‘relating to nutrition’. Autotrophic plants are those plants that are capable of self synthesising their own food by using light energy. Almost all green plants with chlorophyll pigments are considered as autotrophic plants.
Heterotrophic plants are different from autotrophs in the fact that they are unable to produce their own foods and depend on other plants for their food and nutrition. Examples of heterotrophic plants are parasitic plants and saprophytic plants.
Autotrophs are food producers while heterotrophs are consumers. There are some plants that exhibit both autotrophic and heterotrophic characteristics. For example: carnivorous or insectivorous plants.
Carnivorous plants are very interesting because of their habit of carnivory and