Carnivorous plants are also known as insectivorous plants. These plants absorb most of the nutrients that they need like proteins etc. from trapping animals or protozoa’s in them and then consuming them. They mostly focus on insects and other anthropoids. They normally grow in places that contain soil that are deficient in nutrients like nitrogen such as places like bogs and rock out cropping. Charles Darwin was the fist among the few scientists that wrote on the carnivorous plants.

The carnivorous line has at least 10 separate distinct lineages of plants. They are dependant by at least a dozen genres in 5 separate families. These plants include about 675 types that produce digestive enzymes trap insects and absorb the nutrients that they require from them. There are over 300 other proto carnivorous species that are also available but not all of them show the same characteristics as the before mentioned.

There are five basic trapping mechanisms that are almost followed by all the carnivorous plants. They are the pitfall traps, the flypaper traps, the snap traps, the bladder traps and the lobsterpot traps. These traps may either be active or passive depending upon the movement that is required to aid in the capture of the pray. They are mostly customized depending upon the type of prey for the plant.