Monday, March 6, 2017

Pitcher plant

Nepenthes distillatoria
Pitcher plant 

Pitcher Plant

Pitcher Plant
A tropical pitcher plant endemic to Sri Lanka, Nepenthes distillatoria is famous for its leaves that have modified as pitfall traps — a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive fluid liquid. The plant´s diet usually consists of insects but there have been some cases recorded when the plant ate a frog and even a mouse.
Source and image: en.wikipedia.org
renukakkar, 4.3.2016
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