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The pitcher is filled with water and enzymes produced by the plant and helpful in the digestion of prey. In the wild, Sarracenia minor seems very attractive to ants, although it also attracts and eats a wide range of flying insects.
Nepenthes danseri (/ n ɪ ˈ p ɛ n θ iː z ˈ d æ n s ə r aɪ /; after B. H. Danser, botanist) is a species of tropical pitcher plant.It is known only from the northern coast of Waigeo Island; plants from Halmahera, the largest of the Maluku Islands, are now recognised as belonging to a separate species, N. halmahera.
Sarracenia trap insects using pitchers with nectar and slippery footing around the lip The anatomy of S. purpurea. Sarracenia (/ ˌ s ær ə ˈ s iː n i ə / or / ˌ s ær ə ˈ s ɛ n i ə /) is a genus comprising 8 to 11 species of North American pitcher plants, commonly called trumpet pitchers.
The yellow pitcher plant is easy to cultivate, and is one of the most popular carnivorous plants in horticulture. The yellow pitcher plant readily hybridises with other members of the genus Sarracenia : the hybrids S. x catesbaei ( S. flava × S. purpurea ) and S. moorei ( S. flava × S. leucophylla ) are found in the wild, and are also popular ...
Pitcher of Nepenthes distillatoria. A: Honey-glands from attractive surface of lid. B: Digestive fluid from interior of pitcher, in pocket-like depression of epidermis, opening downwards. C: Transverse section of the same. Scanning electron micrograph inner surface of pitcher plant Pitcher plants growing in a bog in Pennsylvania
Sarracenia rubra, also known as the sweet [1] or purple pitcher plant, is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia.Like all Sarracenia, it is native to the New World.Its range extends from southern Mississippi, through southern Alabama, the Florida panhandle and Georgia, to the coastal plains of North Carolina and South Carolina.
Nepenthes alata (/ n ɪ ˈ p ɛ n θ iː z ə ˈ l ɑː t ə /; from Latin alatus "winged") is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to the Philippines. [7] [17] Like all pitcher plants, it is carnivorous and uses its nectar to attract insects that drown in the pitcher and are digested by the plant.
Nepenthes macfarlanei (/ n ɪ ˈ p ɛ n θ iː z ˌ m æ k f ɑːr ˈ l eɪ n i aɪ /; after John Muirhead Macfarlane, botanist) is a carnivorous pitcher plant species endemic to Peninsular Malaysia. It produces attractive red-speckled pitchers. Lower pitchers are ovoid or infundibular in the lower half and globose or cylindrical above and up ...