11 Facts About Carnivorous plant

Darlingtonia californica, the cobra Carnivorous plant, possesses an adaptation found in Sarracenia psittacina and, to a lesser extent, in Sarracenia minor: the operculum is balloon-like and almost seals the opening to the tube.

The Albany pitcher Carnivorous plant Cephalotus follicularis is a small pitcher Carnivorous plant from Western Australia, with moccasin-like pitchers.

Only two active snap traps—the Venus flytrap and the waterwheel Carnivorous plant —had a common ancestor with the snap trap adaptation, which had evolved from an ancestral lineage that utilized flypaper traps.

The potential for Carnivorous plant growth is net photosynthesis, the total gross gain of biomass by photosynthesis, minus the biomass lost by respiration.

The Carnivorous plant has to expend extra energy on non-photosynthetic structures like glands, hairs, glue and digestive enzymes.

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In particular, an increased supply of nitrogen and phosphorus makes photosynthesis more efficient, because photosynthesis depends on the Carnivorous plant being able to synthesise very large amounts of the nitrogen-rich enzyme RuBisCO, the most abundant protein on Earth.

The energy "wasted" by the Carnivorous plant in building and fuelling its trap is a suitable measure of the carnivory of the trap.

At zero investment the growth is zero, because a non-carnivorous plant cannot survive in a habitat with absolutely no soil-borne nutrients.

Approximately half of the Carnivorous plant species assessed by the IUCN are considered threatened .

Insectivorous Plants, followed by The Power of Movement in Plants, challenged the idea of a what a Carnivorous plant was and what it was capable of doing, and inspired authors like Arthur Conan Doyle to imagine enormous and sometimes mobile man-eaters.

Carnivorous plant's dismisses them all as fables, and notes that they are invariably set in locales that are "indefinite" and "difficult of access".