Flesh Eating Plants

In general, plants start to germinate and grow with just the right combination of soil, water, and sunlight.

Plants prepare their own food by the process called photosynthesis. Some plants which thrive in the toughest conditions like soil without nutrient have adapted themselves to eat the flesh of tiny creatures.

These plants derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming tiny animals typically insects, spiders etc. These predatory green plants are the Carnivorous plants or the Non-Vegetarian Plants.

There are more than 670 species of carnivorous plants. These plants have developed specialised trapping systems that help them lure, catch, kill and digest small prey animals.

There are a variety of trapping strategies employed by these crafty plants, including pitfall traps, flypaper traps, snap traps, bladder traps, lobster-pot traps and even a crazy combination trap called the catapulting flypaper trap.

Drowned lizard in the pitfall trap of Nepenthes attenboroughii