When do Butterworts flower: A butterwort (a carnivorous plant) that is well established will flower throughout the spring. In parallel with this new flowering, the rosette bud will split into two new...
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How Do Butterworts Eat: Butterworts capture and digest their prey using a mechanism resembling sticky flypaper. The upper surface of the leaves is covered with two kinds of sticky glands. The glands...
How Do Sundews Reproduce: Besides the traditional pollination methods, the flowers of many species of sundews are self-fertile, which means that once the blooms have closed, they are likely to...
How Do Butterworts Catch Prey: To capture and digest their prey, Butterworts (Pinguicula) employ a unique mechanism that resembles sticky fly paper. Its broad, spreading leaves are covered in two...
The monkey Cup is also known as Monkey Jar, and pitcher plants but formally known as Nepenthes. The plant is one of a large family of tropical carnivorous plants indigenous to Southeast Asia,...
A plant that is a carnivore is one that will capture, kill, and digest organisms. Although they usually catch, eat, and digest insects, some larger species can also eat mice, birds, and fish. While...