Carnivorous plants

Hello friends, today I will tell you about carnivorous plants.

Is a topic that I find very interesting, as it reflects the way in which living beings adapt to the place where they live.

A carnivorous plant must meet three characteristics:

-          - Capture and kill prey

-          - Have a mechanism to facilitate digestion of the prey

-          -Derive a significant benefit from nutrients assimilated from the prey.

Well, carnivorous plants don’t eat meat as such. They have a digestion quite similar to the fungi, what is known as external digestion.  

These plants catch their prey  through different mechanisms, some are: adhesive in their leaves, moving tentacles, water traps, among others.

Their prey are mainly the insects and absorb the nutrients that are in him. This is because they have glands that secrete acids and enzymes, which degrade the prey.

It is important to mention that this type of plant is in very hostile places, where there is lack of some nutrient.

When I went to the south of Chile I could see the specie  Drosera uniflora, one of the two species of carnivorous plants native to this country, it is really small and very pretty.