Carnivorous Plant Drosera Glanduligera Use Tentacles To Capture Insect

Article Here: Snap Tentacles of the carnivorous plant, capture insect. The sundew plant, Drosera glanduligera, a carnivorous plant, uses its tentacle like leaves to capture prey. Its trapping mechanism is one of the fastest among carnivorous plants. Credit: Citation: Poppinga S, Hartmeyer SRH, Seidel R, Masselter T, Hartmeyer I, et al. (2012) Catapulting Tentacles in a Sticky Carnivorous Plant. PLoS ONE 7(9): e45735. doi:
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