The Botanist

Amazon plants have a lot of interesting usages like the amazing cocoa tree, It producing more than 100 different liquids that could be made into medication to cure you of diseases and infections of a wound. Most of the are like flowers staying in their place unless they were picked or blown away but there are some other plants that move about and have mouths to eat insect and others that let out a toxin that could kill insects and even us. These are some names; Pitfall traps, Flypaper traps, Bladder traps, Lobster-pot traps and a Sarracenia. These are the types of plants you don’t want to run into or mess with, in a rainforest.

The Venus Fly Trap Fact File:

Description:The Venus Flytrap also known as a Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests animal, it’s a small plant whose structure can be described as a rosette of four to seven leaves, which arise from a short subterranean stem that is actually a bulb-like object. Each stem reaches a maximum size of about three to ten centimeters, depending on the time of year longer leaves with robust traps are usually formed after flowering. Flytraps that have more than 7 leaves are colonies formed by rosettes that have divided beneath the ground

It eats:Mostly insects and arachnids

How it catches it’s prey: It’s trapping process is formed by the plant's leaves and is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces

The climate it live in: It’s found in environment that hasn’t got that much nitrogen so it would be nitrogen-poor, such as bogs and wet savannahs.