Comment on Carnivory in Plants

shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Carnivorous plants need to attract insects to feed AND to reproduce. Of course they don’t want to eat the pollinators so they usually have flowers with long stems

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep! The pitcher plants around here have high flowers and Venus Fly Traps have hilariously high flowers.

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      sundews too, and sarrencenia, aquatic plants. also we found out some pitchers attract mammals for thier nutrient rich poop"poop in thier pitchers" to get all that nitrogen.

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pitcher plants use sugary secretions to attract prey not flowers

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  • zedgeist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why would they want to attract flowers?

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because they’re pretty, duh

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Both use flowers with long stems to keep the pollinators out of harm’s way. I grow both, seen it IRL.

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