Carnivorous Plants Story
Picture book for a young audience /
Kindle Edition
by
Makoto Honda
Copyright (c) 2013-2017 by Makoto Honda.
All Rights Reserved.
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Flypaper Traps In a flypaper trap, sometimes called an adhesive trap, the surface of the leaf is covered with tiny hairs each tipped with a crystal-clear droplet of sticky mucilage (glue). Any insect that lands on a leaf is immediately mired down with a sticky glue-like substance. Both sundews and butterworts use the flypaper trap to capture their animal food. There are about 150 species of sundews and some 100 species of butterworts in the world.
Dewy leaves
of a hybrid sundew, Drosera obovata. This is a sterile hybrid of D.
rotundifolia and D. anglica.
Flowers of
Drosera obovata (left) and a winter bud (hibernaculum). The hibernaculum
endures winter cold. Come spring, it sprouts new glandular leaves.
A Western
Australian sundew, Drosera hamiltonii, overwhelming a large crane
fly.
Cultivated
plants of the Western Australian sundew, Drosera hamiltonii,
growing in Sphagnum moss.
Drosera
peltata,
from Japan. Note the characteristic semi-circular leaves and a tall stem,
reaching 10 cm in height. The plant also occurs in Australia.
A sundew
with a small spider, as seen in the eyes of infra-red photography. Northern
California, in September.
A leaf of an
Australian sundew, Drosera adelae.
A
dew-covered leaf of an Australian sundew, Drosera adelae.
A flower an
Australian sundew, Drosera adelae.
Another
adhesive (or flypaper) trap carnivore, Drosophyllum, from Portugal. The
common name for this plant is the Portuguese Dewy Pine. A seedling (left) and a
glandular leaf (right).
Stalked
glands on the surface of a butterwort leaf. Butterworts capture prey by these
sticky glue-tipped hairs on the leaf (Pinguicula macroceras).
INTRODUCTION PITFALL TRAPS FLYPAPER TRAPS SNAP-TRAPS SUCTION TRAPS VENUS FLYTRAP SUNDEWS PITCHER PLANTS COBRA PLANT BUTTERWORTS BLADDERWORTS
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