You have heard about several insectivorous plants that feed on insects. Nepenthes or the pitcher plant is one such example, which usually gorws in shallow water or in marsh lands. What part of the plant is modified into a pitcher ? How does this modification help the plant for food even through it can photosynthesise like any other green plant ?

You have heard about several insectivorous plants that feed on insects. Nepenthes or the pitcher plant is one-such example, which usually grows in shallow water or in marsh lands. What part of the plant is modified into-a 'pitcher'? How does this modification’help.the plant for food even though it can, photosynthesize like any Other green plant?

You have heard about serveral insectivorous plants that feed on insects. Nepenthes or the pitches plant is one such example. Which usually grows in shallow water or in marsh lands. What part of the plant os modified into a 'pitcher'? How does this modification help the plant for food even though it can photosynthesize like any other green plant?

Nepenthes (commonly called as pitcher plant), an insectivorous plant usually grows in marsh lands. Which part of the plant is modified into a 'pitcher'? How does this modification help the plant for food even though it can photosynthesize like any other green plant?

Use your brain power! Why does the pitcher plant feed on insects even though it produces food by photosynthesis?

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