Meat-eating plants

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carnivorous plant - plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals

herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests

pitcher plant - any of several insectivorous herbs of the order Sarraceniales

daily dew, sundew, sundew plant - any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects; cosmopolitan in distribution

Dionaea muscipula, Venus's flytrap, Venus's flytraps - carnivorous plant of coastal plains of the Carolinas having sensitive hinged marginally bristled leaf blades that close and entrap insects

Aldrovanda vesiculosa, waterwheel plant - floating aquatic carnivorous perennial of central and southern Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia having whorls of 6 to 9 leaves ending in hinged lobes for capturing e.g. water fleas

Drosophyllum lusitanicum - perennial of dry habitats whose leaves have glandular hairs that secrete adhesive and digestive fluid for capture and digestion of insects; Portugal, southern Spain and Morocco

roridula - either of 2 species of the genus Roridula; South African viscid perennial low-growing woody shrubs

bladderwort - any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders that trap minute aquatic animals

butterwort - any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects

genlisea - rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle to form traps; each tube passes into two long spirally twisted arms with stiff hairs

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Aldrovanda vesiculosa
bladderwort
bladderwort family
butterwort
daily dew
Dionaea muscipula
Drosophyllum lusitanicum
family Lentibulariaceae
flesh-eating
genlisea
genus Dionaea
genus Genlisea
genus Utricularia
Lentibulariaceae
meat-eating
piscivorous
pitcher plant
roridula
sundew

All meat-eating plants use chemicals to dissolve their victims.

Meat-eating Plants by Albawaba.com

Meat-eating plants typically grow in wet places with poor nutrition but plenty of sunlight.

Stalking the green meat eaters: why ecologists love these toothless ... by Milius, Susan / Science News

Farin and Jeff Dallas, who started the business in 1995 by selling plants at the Portland Saturday Market, say they have created a loyal following of collectors and growers of meat-eating plants throughout Oregon and beyond.

Clubs offer a new plant each month by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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