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What is pitcher plant ? Explain with daigram

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Ajashra Bajaj 6 years, 10 months ago

Pitcher plants is a carnivorous plants which have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive fluid liquid. Foraging, flying or crawling insects such as flies are attracted to the cavity formed by the cupped leaf, often by visual  pigments, and nectar bribes. The rim of the pitcher (peristome) is slippery, when moistened by condensation or nectar, causing insects to fall into the trap. Pitcher plants may also contain waxy scale, inward and downward pointing (retrorse) hairs, to ensure that insects cannot climb out.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcher_plant#cite_note-Krol-etal-2011-1">[1]</a> The small bodies of liquid contained within the pitcher traps.. They drown the insect, and the body of it is gradually dissolved. This may occur by bacterial action (the bacteria being washed into the pitcher by rainfall) or by enzymes secreted by the plant itself.

 

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