5 Best Carnivorous Plants To Grow Indoors

 5 Best Carnivorous Plants to Grow Indoors & How to Maintain Them

You pick every houseplant on every startup list and soak your toes in some rare houseplants, starting with an elaborate succulent garden in your window - but you still want something.

I know that feeling.

Collecting houseplants is an endless hobby. Once you have mastered a plant, it is almost impossible to stop it from beating every single leaf you can grow indoors.

If you are stuck in this situation, I may have a solution for you. They can get a bad rap as villains in horror movies or children's dreams, but they will be very friendly once you know about them, and an essential collector's item. We are talking about carnivorous plants.

What are carnivorous plants?

Carnivorous plants are incredibly easy to define. Like other carnivores, they kill prey. Whether it is a fly or a beetle, once caught, the insects are digested by the plant for essential nutrients.

They have a long history. These plants first appeared 70 million years ago - after the genes had done their best during difficult times - mutation. Studies show that non-vegetarian plants copy their DNA / genomes under stress caused by a lack of nutrients. These copies allowed them to diversify their scope. The leaf and root DNA is altered, allowing these plants to not only trap meat prey but also absorb its nutrients.

As evolution dictated, their leaves and roots became unwanted because they received unwanted nutrients from prey. Thus, the original leaf and root genes began to disappear. Their environment also had an impact. Depending on where the plants are, they will grow in harmony with the environment and attract the right kind of prey in their vicinity.

If their interesting history does not convince you to look at them, perhaps their relatively easy nature.

5 carnivorous plants to grow indoors

Venus Flytrap

Venus flytrap is, without a doubt, the most commonly known carnivorous plant.

They look relatively different with weird mouth-like traps. These can have modified leaves and many more on a plant. These mouths have the bitterness to attract their prey. Thin tooth-like growths on the edge of the trap are triggering hairs.

When the prey touches one of these, it closes its mouth and seals the insect inside. The plant then expels the enzymes that digest the prey for more than a week. Once the prey is eaten, the mouth opens again, causing the insects to come inside.

Butterworts

Butterwort is a carnivorous plant unknown to many. These plants are lazy when engaged in trapping and do not use any movement to catch or catch prey. In contrast, its yellow avocado leaves have an adhesive coating that attracts and attracts insects.

Nitrogen-rich mosquitoes are its favorite food. Fruit flies are another great choice for this plant. The resin is excreted through the glands in the leaves, and when the insect fights, more is released. Eventually, the mosquito or fruit fly is completely sealed and digestion begins. All that remains are the outer skeletons of the insects.

Bladderworts

Even if catching plants scares your luxury, if you are looking for something unusual, do not look for anything other than bladders.

Bladderworts (Utricularia) has a complex trapping system. Many people believe that this is the most complex of all carnivorous plants.

Sundews

Sundews (Drosera) is another trap plant that is very attractive in name and appearance. This plant thrives in temperate and tropical regions and enjoys high sandy acid soils.

Sundews' trap mechanisms are very interesting.

Their leaves twist and form sticky bands with sticky hair. Above all these tent-like hairs secrete sticky material from the ends of their buds. It attracts its prey from flies to mosquitoes.

Pitcher Plants

For more experienced green thumbs, choose jug plants. These interesting plants grow anywhere with their elegant and bright leaves. When you first see them you may not think they are carnivores, but their tube leaves effectively catch insects. In the wild, small animals are part of the menu.

Jug plants attract prey with their aroma and bright colors. Its vase-like traps are smooth and lined with small hairs Be, thus making it difficult to escape prey. Water will accumulate inside these leaves and drown the prey. Some varieties even produce the chemical that kills the unfortunate pest. This chemical liquid acts as a glaze at the bottom of the cup. The more the prey fights, the more they are pulled down.