Presence of the insectivorous plant Drosera burmannii, popularly known as the Sundew, has now been reported in the forest of the Tillari bio-region of Maharashtra. The Drosera species is an endangered ...

1. Sundews are a carnivorous plant, and despite their tiny size they are a formidable foe for insects on every continent except Antarctica! There at least 194 species of sundew, or Drosera, and they ...

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Carnivorous plants have developed specialized structures to capture and digest prey for essential nutrients in nutrient-poor environments. These include pitcher plants with pitfall traps, Venus ...