smithsonianlibraries:Nepenthes (Asian pitcher plants) are no shrinking violets. They lure insects,
smithsonianlibraries: Nepenthes (Asian pitcher plants) are no shrinking violets. They lure insects, worms and small rodents by emitting sweet nectar fluids, as well as by their mottled pitchers resembling decaying flesh. The prey, perched on the edge of the pitcher, will slip and tumble into a trap of digestive fluids. Certain species of Nepenthes have also developed claws around the rim of their pitchers to ward off any competing predators like spiders and primates. “Nepenthaceae” from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur, Leipzig und Wien: Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts (1899). Read more about them here. -- source link
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