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15 Fascinating Facts About Plants

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Plants are defenseless against the munching mouths of herbivorous animals, but some carnivorous plant species take matters into their own stems by snacking on bugs. Read on for 10 interesting facts about plants.

Pitcher Plants

Pitcher plants catch frogs to eat and leave behind small frog slippers. The plants digest everything except the skin on the frogs' feet.

Venus Fly Trap

If a careless bug brushes the tiny hairs of a Venus fly trap more than once, the plant's leaves snap shut and devours the creature.

Yellow Pitcher Plant

Rainwater fills the leaves of this meat-eating plant, so bugs can fly in, but they can't get out.

Cobra Lily

The translucent windows in the cobra lily's leaves confuse bugs. They fly deeper inside this carnivorous plant when they think they're escaping.

Butterwort

The bristles on the meat-eating butterwort have sticky hairs that keep insects glued in place until the plant's digestive juices get to work.

Monkey Cup

A variation of the pitcher plant, the cups of these plants have bug leftovers that insect larvae eat.

Australian Sundew

What looks like raindrops on this plant's leaves attract bugs, who get stuck to and trapped by the gluey substance.

Big Floating Bladderwort

The cup-shaped leaves of this water-dwelling plant traps tiny aquatic creatures.

Pickle Plants in Peril

Downy mildew is the biggest threat to cucumber plants, putting pickle farmers in peril.

Hungry Herbivores

Deer will eat almost any plant if they're hungry enough, except for one: Celtic Pride Siberian cypress.

The Wishbone Flower

The shade-loving annual Torenia is known as the wishbone flower, thanks to the small wishbone-shaped stamens inside its petals.

Coast Redwood

The coast redwood is the world's tallest-growing tree, found along the Pacific Coast, especially in California. Its scientific name is Sequoia sempervirens.

Bristlecone Pine

The world's oldest-growing tree is a bristlecone pine, whose scientific name is Pinus aristata.

Bamboo

The fastest-growing woody plant in the world is bamboo, which can grow 35 inches in one day.

Tulips

Tulips were so prized during 17th-century Holland that their bulbs were worth more than gold. Tulipomania caused the Dutch economy to crash.