Author: Charles DarwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carnivorous plants
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Insectivorous Plants
Author: Charles DarwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carnivorous plants
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Insectivorous Plants
Author: Charles DarwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carnivorous plants
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Insectivorous Plants ... With illustrations
Author: Charles DarwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carnivorous plants
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Carnivorous Plants
Author: Adrian SlackPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262690898
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Provides an introduction to carnivorous plants, and features descriptions and illustrations of representative species, each with detailed information on the structure and mechanism of its trap.
Insect-eating Plants
Author: L. Patricia KitePublisher:
ISBN: 9781562945626
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Presents the major types of carnivorous plants, including the Venus flytrap, pitcher plant, butterwort, sundew, and bladderwort, and provides basic guidelines for growing carnivorous plants
Carnivorous Plants
Author: Aaron M. EllisonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198779844
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
Carnivorous plants have fascinated botanists, evolutionary biologists, ecologists, physiologists, developmental biologists, anatomists, horticulturalists, and the general public for centuries. Charles Darwin was the first scientist to demonstrate experimentally that some plants could actually attract, kill, digest, and absorb nutrients from insect prey; his book Insectivorous Plants (1875) remains a widely-cited classic. Since then, many movies and plays, short stories, novels, coffee-table picture books, and popular books on the cultivation of carnivorous plants have been produced. However, all of these widely read products depend on accurate scientific information, and most of them have repeated and recycled data from just three comprehensive, but now long out of date, scientific monographs. The field has evolved and changed dramatically in the nearly 30 years since the last of these books was published, and thousands of scientific papers on carnivorous plants have appeared in the academic journal literature. In response, Ellison and Adamec have assembled the world's leading experts to provide a truly modern synthesis. They examine every aspect of physiology, biochemistry, genomics, ecology, and evolution of these remarkable plants, culminating in a description of the serious threats they now face from over-collection, poaching, habitat loss, and climatic change which directly threaten their habitats and continued persistence in them.
Carnivorous Plants of the World
Author: James PietropaoloPublisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN: 9780881923568
Category : Carnivorous plants
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Few groups of plants capture the imagination like these carnivores. Among the best known are the Venus fly trap and the various pitcher plants; these and many others are covered.
The Carnivorous Plants
Author: Francis Ernest LloydPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447495586
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
The experience which has led to the writing of this book began in 1929 when, examining a species related to Utricularia gibba, I made an observation of some importance in understanding the mechanism of the trap. This begot a desire to study as many other species of the genus as I could obtain for comparison, primarily to determine the validity of my conclusions. My feeling that research in this field was promising was strengthened by the discovery that the pertinent literature was singularly barren of the information most needed, that is to say, precise accounts of the structure of the entrance mechanisms of the traps. And an examination of much herbarium material, because of the meagreness of the underground parts of the terrestrial types resulting from indifferent methods of collection, forced the conclusion that, even had other difficulties inherent in studying dried material not intervened, it would be necessary to obtain adequately preserved specimens. This meant a wide correspondence and, if possible, extensive travel. The uncertainty of achieving the latter made the former imperative.
Growing Carnivorous Plants
Author: Barry A. RicePublisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Over 200 species, hybrids, and cultivars from all genera of carnivorous plants are described in this comprehensive volume. Detailed cultivation advice is provided to enable readers to select and place the right plants, while information on how to feed carnivorous plants will enable even the most squeamish grower to ensure that plants receive the nutrients they require.
Insectivorous Plants
Author: Charles DarwinPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
"Insectivorous Plants" by Charles Darwin chronicles Darwin's experiments with various carnivorous plants, in which he carefully studied their feeding mechanisms. Darwin tried several methods to stimulate the plants into activating their trap mechanisms, including feeding them meat and glass, blowing on them, and prodding them with hair. He found that only the movement of an animal would cause the plants to react and concluded that this was an evolutionary adaptation.