You must be very curious, why the thatched cabbage as a plant, obviously can rely on photosynthesis to eat white food, why do you have to spend so much effort to eat insects? In fact, the habitat of thatched cabbage and other insectivorous plants is generally acidic swampy wetlands, or bare rocky surfaces, the environment is seriously lack of nitrogen and phosphorus and other elements, and they are less efficient photosynthesis; in order to adapt to the barren environment, to maintain good growth, thatched cabbage and other insectivorous plants on the evolution of the ability to rely on eating small worms "supplement". Of course, they do not eat insects can live, but if a long time food can not be improved, their growth rate will be affected

Then, thatched cabbage is not everything to eat? --Not that they have that kind of appetite! First of all, thatchers' traps respond only to organic matter, not to inorganic matter like raindrops or gravel; secondly, thatchers respond at different rates to different organic matter, with protein being the most sensitive stimulus, followed by sugars and fats; and thirdly, thatchers like to eat raw food, and their traps respond much faster to live insects than to dead ones.

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That thatch is always going to be passed on, isn't it true that if the trap catches a pollinating insect, it's going to cut off the scent? You don't have to worry about that, most thatched cabbage has a long, thin flower stem that extends out of the plant and away from the trap leaves, and the flower stem is 5-20cm long, so the insects that help pollinate the plant won't be eaten by mistake.

The flowers of thatch are also interesting, with bisexual flowers in scorpion-tailed cymes, the newly emerged stalks curling up in a fern-like fist of young foliage, before the flowers open from top to bottom. Their perianths are richly colored, ranging from the palest white to a sultry burgundy, and are quite a value.