What is insectivores plants ? write their habitat
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Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients (but not energy) from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods. Carnivorous plants have adapted to grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs. Charles Darwin wrote Insectivorous Plants, the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants, in 1875.
True carnivory is thought to have evolved independently nine times in five different orders of flowering plants, and is represented by more than a dozen genera. This classification includes at least 583 species that attract, trap, and kill prey, absorbing the resulting available nutrients.Additionally, over 300 protocarnivorous plant species in several genera show some but not all of these characteristics.
Habitat
They tend to live in areas where the soil is nutrient-poor and insects are abundant. In such areas, trapping and digesting insects allows them to get the nutrients they are unable to obtain from the soil.
These are often swampy areas, but not exclusively.
Where the place they grow is so very poor in nutrients that they couldn’t survive without nutrition from the occasional insect.
