Understanding Carnivorous Plants

Summary: Carnivorous plants thrive on the nutrients that it receives from trapping and eating animals, insects or arthropods. These plants grow in parts of the world that do not provide valuable nutrients in the soil such as nitrogen. The most popular types are flypaper traps, pitcher plants, snap traps and bladder traps. The flypaper traps are the plants that secrete a sticky substance called mucilage on their leaves in order to trap its prey. Pitfall traps are an interesting plant that traps prey in a rolled leaf, while bladder traps suck prey in with an internal vacuum.

In this series of videos, you can learn more about these interesting plants. Our expert shares an introduction to carnivorous plants and shows how to propagate them through division, leaf cutting and seeds. Stratification and transplantation of carnivorous plants is made easy after seeing these videos. You can also get tips on watering, feeding and lighting these plants so that they will thrive in any environment. Learn about the dormancy stages that these plants go through. Keep your plants safe with a fungus treatment and get tips for hybridization of carnivorous plants in these expert videos.

This series is an Equilibrio Films production.