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Heterotrophic plants

Venus Fly Trap Rafflesia Arnoldii

Meadow Eyebright Vogelwikke

Parasitic plants

By: Hitanshi Miniwala

Parasitic plants

Symbiotic plants

Saprophytic plants

Insectivorous plants

Cuscuta Mistletoe

Parasitic plants are those which absorbed food from another growing green plant, called the host. Parasitic plants develop special roots which penetrate into the tissues of the host plant. Example: cuscuta (dodder) and mistletoe.

Dodder can cover woody plants and cause heavy damage to certain economically important crops. Mistletoe can become so abundant on a tree that most of the foliage is

of the parasitic and not of the host.

Saprophytic plants By: Hitanshi Miniwala

Indian pipe coral roots

Saprophytic plants are usually whitish, but can have brightly colored flowers .These plants have no green leaves; often they have no leaves at all. Saprophytic plants are plants that live off rotting material. They grow in places with lots of rotting dead leaves, often in deep shade in tropical forest. Example: Indian pipe and coral roots.

Insectivorous plants

By: Hitanshi Miniwala

Pitcher plant Bladderworts

These plants are usually green so they can make their own food. However, the soil in which they grow is sometimes deficient in certain nutrients, especially nitrogen. Hence, these plants need to obtain these nutrients from outside sources. Insectivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients by trapping and consuming animals, mainly insects. Symbiotic Plants

By: Hitanshi Miniwala

LICHENS RHIZOBIUM

There are certain plants which live in association with other species and share their food resources. Both the types mutually gain from each other. Such plant is called symbiotic plants and the relationship is called symbiosis.

By: Hitanshi Miniwala