how does a pitcher plant get its nutrition
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it gets nutrition by the things it catches from.
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Pitcher plant derives nutrition just the way any other plant does . It takes water and minerals from the soil and food by photosynthesis. But the soil in which it grows doesn't has nitrogen so it uses the pitcher for killing small insects and then digesting them to derive nitrogen from the animal.
The pitcher is meant to attract insects . When an insect is sensed the lid closes and the pitcher releases sticky substances so that the insect is sticked . Now the pitcher releases digestive enzymes which digest the insect and then the digested insect is absorbed simply by osmotrophy. When the insect gets absorbed then the pitcher opens again awaiting another insect.
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