VENUS FLYTRAP

Main Characteristics

- The Venus Flytrap is a carnivorous plant.

- It has two ways of eating: they can make their own food (photosyntesis) or they can feed on insects.

- Their leaves are able to close to catch insects.

Parts of the plant

 - It is a small herbaceous plant of between 5 and 15 cm.

- Leaves: Light green, arranged in a rosette (between 4 and 7 leaves).

- Each leave has two parts:

• A proximal: consisting of two enlogated ans asymmetrical lobes of green color.
• A terminal, whichconstitutes the trap formed by two symmetrical lobes of red color.

- Stem: is underground, rhizome type.

Reproduction

 Two types.

- Sexual: Through seeds. In this process helps insects, atrracted by the flower, insects carry the pollen from the stamen to the pistil.

- Asexual: when a leave, not joined to the rhizome, falls and becomes a new plant.

Funfacts

- The Venus flytrap is able to sense the presence of his victims because their leaves are covered with a ultra sensible hairs.

- Catch their prey in less than a second.