We all know the basics of the food chain, plants feed on the sun, animals eat plants, large animals eat small animals in the world of nature, and yet there are always exceptions. Here in this article you will find the strangest plants that attract, hunt and digest animals and most of these animals are insects, But also sometimes feed on snails, lizards, or even small mammals
One of the strangest plants is the Tropical Pitcher
The main thing that distinguishes the tropical pitcher plant is its size. Besides that of plants that eat meat, this plant can reach more than one foot.
Height, making it perfect not only for catching and digesting insects, but also for feeding small lizards, amphibians, and even mammals. The process of fattening is confined to attracting animals to the smell of sweet plants. Once caught in the digestive jar, the process of ingestion takes two months to digest.
Cobra lily plant
This plant is named because it resembles Cobra, a cobra lily plant, a rare plant found in the cold water swamps of Oregon and Northern California. This plant is truly demonic, not only because it attracts insects to its sweet-smelling trunk, It has many false exits that exhaust its desperate victims who are trying to escape.
Trigger plant
Although the reality of the name is aggressive, it is not clear whether the trigger plant is a truly carnivorous plant, but it may simply be trying to protect itself from annoying insects. Some species of trigger plants are equipped with some viscous hair, Which grabs any small thing suspended during the process of pollination and leaves of these plants secrete digestive enzymes that melt slowly with their unfortunate victims.
Yana plant
There are types of plants known as Yana, in fact these girls have more than one stage in their life cycle to grow in the form of sticky oval leaves, attract the victim and catch the insects and digest them, and sometimes achieve lengths of more than one hundred feet, there is no need to worry about its size , Outside the greenhouses specializing in exotic plants, you will find that the only place you can meet this exotic plant is in West Africa Tropical.
Venus Flycatcher
Venus Flycatcher and other carnivorous plants may not have been the largest, but it is certainly a well-known member, and the Venus flycatcher plant is fairly small (it is not more than half a foot in length) and viscous, eyelid-like "traps" is only an inch Long, one of the most exciting facts about Venus Flycatcher, is that it issues false alarms to pick up insects. As soon as it approaches, it only closes and succeeds within 20 seconds.
Trigger I didn't know, thanks!
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