The exhibition of carnivorous plants in Colombia

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Carnivorous plants (the terms are used as carnivorous plants carnivorous plants) - the collective name of some 630 species of plants from 19 families that have adapted to fishing and digest small animals, primarily insects. Thus they supplement their normal autotrophic food (photosynthesis) a form of heterotrophic nutrition. As a result of carnivorous plants less dependent on soil inorganic nitrogen required for the synthesis of their own proteins.

Here is a few pictures taken at the Botanical Garden of the Colombian capital during the exhibition of carnivorous plants photographer William Fernando Martinez.





1. Insect trapped Carnivorous plant Venus flytrap (Dionaea Muscipula). (AP Photo / William Fernando Martinez)



2. Mosquito on disyllabic sundew (Drosera binata). (AP Photo / William Fernando Martinez)



3. The Beetle is a sheet of a small carnivorous plant geliamfora (Helliamphora minor). (AP Photo / William Fernando Martinez)



4. Butterfly hit the "network" carnivorous sundew plant. (AP Photo / William Fernando Martinez)



5. dead insects floating in a small geliamfory (Helliamphora minor). (AP Photo / William Fernando Martinez)



6. The insect has become a victim of predatory plant Venus flytrap (Dionaea Muscipula). (AP Photo / William Fernando Martinez)



7. Carnivorous plants Drosera madagascariensis in the exhibition, which was held in the Botanical Garden of Bogota December 28, 2010. (AP Photo / William Fernando Martinez)



8. scarlet Sarracenia (Sarracenia Scarlett) at an exhibition of carnivorous plants in the Colombian capital. (AP Photo / William Fernando Martinez)
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