Question

If pitcher plant is green that it carries out photosynthesis. why do they feed insects?

Answer 1

Pitcher plant is green as it containschlorophyll and hence it is capable of performing photosynthesis ( a process in which green plants prepare their own food with the help of sunlight) due to which they are also called asAutotrophs. Pitcher plants on the other hand are also called as Carnivorous pants.

Well, this is because all plants need some minerals which play an essential role in their survival and pitcher plant is one such plant which grows in swamp or bog areas where the soil is deficient in nitrogen mineral.

In order to fulfill the deficiency of nitrogen, they trap the insects ( these have proteins and proteins are the polypeptide chains which contain amino acids, amino acid in turn has nitrogen as one of its elements ) and utilize their proteins. For this reason it is called insectivorous plant also. It traps prey in rolled leaf that contains a pool of digestive enzymes or bacteria that help in the digestion of the trapped insects.