Carnivorous plant

[[image:Palau_pitcher_plant.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A Nepenthes

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in flower, growing on a road cut in Palau]]

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A carnivorous plant is a plant that derives some or most of its

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nutrients (but not energy) by trapping and consuming animals,

Related Topics:
Nutrient - Energy - Animal

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especially insects and other arthropods. Carnivorous plants usually

Related Topics:
Insect - Arthropod

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grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients,

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especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs and rock outcroppings.

Related Topics:
Nitrogen - Bog

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Charles Darwin wrote the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants in 1875.

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