Carnivorous plants or plant predators, obey the great law of motion of nature - are fighting for survival.Watching the silent dramatic struggle of plants and animals, which is the main business of life carnivorous predators, natural scientists and naturalists are delighted and flower growers, despite the growing complexity of these amazing plants, they tend to enrich their collections.
Drosera capensis (Cape sundew)
among carnivorous plants are the most common sundew, of which there are more than 100 species.At home grown one of the most beautiful rosyanok - Cape.On the stem of the perennial presence of finely elongated leaves with attractive-looking hunting authorities with glands secreting a special substance to digest prey.Flower predator is in constant anticipation of insects.
20 - 30 degrees - the optimum temperature of the content of the plants in the summer, 12 - 15 - in the winter.The most suitable soil for whimsical flower - a mixture of peat moss and sand.Cape sundew needs regular moisture of the soil clod, which is recommended practice watering with distilled water to the pan.Grow from seeds Drosera capensis is hard enough, so it is recommended the Cape sundew, like other carnivorous plants, buy a ready instance.
Dionaea muscipula (Venus Flytrap)
Sometimes carnivorous plants are capable of rapid movement.Pretty soon close up the edge of the sheet-traps, hiding in their prey, carnivorous plants of the genus Dionaea, called the Venus flytrap.The insect is in the "stomach", where after 10 days of digestion from it can only chitin shell.
flycatcher will feel good in the garden or on the window sill, where appropriate conditions: regular watering from the pallet rainwater or distilled water and a few hours of light (preferably in the morning).The most interesting for owners of flycatchers procedure - feeding plants.You can from time to time to feed the sheets soft trap insects, but not cheese, meat or large arthropods that can cause the process of decay within the plant "stomach".Some carnivorous plants, which include flycatcher, need a period of hibernation, because their energy is not enough for continued growth throughout the year.To plant moved to a state of winter dormancy, it should be placed in the basement, a cool room or refrigerator.Thus it is necessary to check its condition and to prevent drying out of peat-sand mixture.
Nepenthes (Nepenthes)
family of pitcher plants includes about 120 species, native to tropical forests of Asia.Carnivorous plants of the genus Nepenthes are equipped with a small bud that gradually expands and turns into a kind of pitcher - trap.Menu of several species of carnivorous plants even includes small vertebrates - birds, rats, lizards.For home content suited only small species that feed on insects.The most common cultivated Nepenthes gracilis.Demanding special care to the plant must be purchased only in the case if there is a greenhouse or terrarium room.Florist to the successful breeding of this predator is necessary to provide conditions similar to the conditions of warm and humid tropical forests.
