In the realm of botany, certain plants have developed in ways contrary to our imagination. While the majority depend on photosynthesis and nutrients from the soil, a special group called carnivorous ...

These plants were initially found in areas lacking a nutritious soil base, so they evolved over time and adapted to eating bugs to fill in for the lack of nourishment ...

Plants are divided into broad categories in terms of their mode of nutrition. The first category consists of green plants which make their own food by the common process called photosynthesis. Such ...

The Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula is the most sophisticated of the carnivorous plants. Its traps snap shut in a fraction of a second, imprisoning prey in a cage of teeth that line the edges of the ...