"狡猾" hunter - Nepenthes

The plant kingdom is really rare, not only those beautiful flowers, but also the food that we can eat. When I first heard of "Nepenthes" a year ago, I thought it was a grass that could raise pigs. A few days ago, I saw the pitcher plant in my neighbor's house. It turned out to be an ornamental plant, but my mother told me that it has other uses - catching insects. How can a plant become a catcher? I took a closer look at it: the pitcher plants are pretty, the green leaves are hanging a few pink bottles with small lids, and there are some patterns on the outside of the small bottles, plus the sweet nectar of the bottle. It is a bright and beautiful flower.

Why do pitcher plants dress up like this? With doubts, I opened up "haha, the plants are super interesting." The original pitcher plant is a tropical carnivorous plant that dresses itself as a flower to attract insects. The attractive nectar of the pitcher bottle is like a big meal for insects. As long as the insects stop here, they will die. When they eat nectar, they slip into the bottle because the inside of the bottle is very smooth, and no insect can crawl out from it. No wonder the neighbor's aunt said that he had a mosquito plant and bought a pitcher plant. It turned out that the pitcher plant can eat bugs!

Why is pitcher plant called "Nepenthes"? On the plant of the pitcher plant, there is a unique insect trap, which is mainly used for sucking nutrients. The insect sac is cylindrical and the lower part is slightly enlarged. Because it is shaped like a pig cage, it is called nepenthes. The environment in which the pig cages come to live - the subtropical region. For environmental reasons, if the pitcher plant only absorbs a little bit of nutrients from the land, it is certainly not enough. The clever pitcher plant thinks of a way to capture insects and absorb the nutrients in the insects for the bag wall to absorb and use, so that the pitcher plants grow longer and stronger.

Plants are so smart, they are constantly evolving in order to survive. Because I am curious and understand new knowledge, let us keep a curiosity in the ocean of knowledge.

Fifth grade: He Yuzhe