China Agriculture View

According to the British “Daily Telegraph” reported that December 4, the Royal Botanic Gardens (also known as Kew Gardens) and botanist who discovered after years of research, including tomatoes and potatoes, including a variety of vegetables are in fact “flesh-eating” plants, they eat insects and Venus fly-trap technique worthy of par.

The findings of the International Plant academic circles have expressed shock and joy, because for many years that scientists have only tomatoes and potatoes to absorb nutrients from the soil. In addition to the soil in fact, the above-mentioned two kinds of vegetables, stems soft parts of insects, firmly hair can “stick”, etc. It died out in the earth, the tomatoes and potatoes can “bites” of. Scientists believe that this phenomenon is the evolution generated, is a lot of self-fertilizing plants a way, so that even tomatoes and potatoes that have been human “domesticated” plants have been a long time inevitably retained this characteristic. In some cases, the soil is very poor, these plants can not provide the necessary nutrients, so they can only be through “trap” Insect to normal growth.

Scientists say they have long been seriously underestimated the “carnivorous” plant types and quantities, in fact, there are many people recognized as the most moderate of the plant are very much like “meat” of, for instance, morning glory, tobacco, shepherd’s purse, and cabbage are “carnivorous” plant of the column. Kew Gardens botanist Mark Chase, said: “We usually eat tomatoes and potatoes have hair, especially hair sticky tomatoes are particularly high. They do often start with insects, kill them and eat – the people generally agree that plants could not move, will not harm other organisms, but in fact some plants really like to eat insects. “