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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivorous_plant
Carnivorous plants (sometimes called insectivorous plants) are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients (but not energy) from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, most focusing on insects and other arthropods. Carnivorous plants usually grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs and rock outcroppings. Charles Darwin wrote the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants in 1875.
Carnivores mostly live in bogs, and those that do not are generally tropical. Hence, most require high humidity.
The easiest carnivorous plants for beginners are those from the cool temperate zone. These plants will do well under cool greenhouse conditions (minimum 5 °C in winter, maximum 25 °C in summer) if kept in wide trays of acidified or rain water during summer, and kept moist during winter:
http://www.sarracenia.com/faq.html
More than 660 species and subspecies of carnivorous plants have been described (although humans have caused some to become extinct).
For a long list of Carnivorous Plants on Film (and tv) visit: http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq1395.html
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