2. Collect the information about the following plants : draw the plant, how they get their food and their habitat ( living place).
a) Pitcher plant
b) Cuscuta / amarbel
c) mushroom
Answers
Explanation:
Pitcher plant is insectivorous plant..
Mushroom is a saprophyte...
Answer:
A parasite is an organism that lives on or in a host organism and gets its food from or at the expense of its host
Explanation:
Pitcher plants are several different carnivorous plants which have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid. The traps of what are considered to be "true" pitcher plants are formed by specialized leaves. The plants attract and drown their prey with nectar.
Cuscuta ( /kʌsˈkjuːtɑː/) (dodder) is a genus of over 201 species of yellow, orange, or red (rarely green) parasitic plants.
A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source.
The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing. lamella) on the underside of the cap. "Mushroom" also describes a variety of other gilled fungi, with or without stems, therefore the term is used to describe the fleshy fruiting bodies of some Ascomycota. These gills produce microscopic spores that help the fungus spread across the ground or its occupant surface.