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Plant eaters Rats

Posted on Thursday, April 28, 2011 by Sipemalu

Maybe we already know that in this world there are some plants that can prey on small insects such as flies, crickets, ants, and others. One of these is the predator plant semar semar.Kantong bag, known by the name "Ketakong" we usually find in the forests of Indonesia. These plants are small enough to be able to eat animals for rats. But in the Philippines, have found plants semar bag big enough to devour such a rodents rats. Ketakong is called by the name of Nepenthes attenboroughii.
The discovery of this plant originated from two missionaries who in 2000 tried to climb Mount Victoria. Mountain which is located in Palawan, Philippines including the rarely visited it human. They climb with a bit of preparation to finally lost for thirteen days before it can be saved. When he returned, both claimed to see the plant raksasa.Hal semar bags are then attracted the attention of nature lovers like Stewart McPherson and independent botanists such as Alastair Robinson from England and Volker Heinrich from the Philippines. All three are experts ketakong plants and has traveled to many remote areas of the search for new species.




In 2007, they melakukakn espedisi for two months in the Philippines, including climbing Mount Victoria. When hiking through lowland forests, they found large ketakong plants known as Nepenthes Philippinensis, along with ferns pink and blue mushroom that can not be their true diindentifikasikan.Penemuan recently discovered at an altitude of about 1,600 above sea level. They found many great ketakong plants and immediately knew that it was not a recognizable species. This new plant named Nepenthes attenboroughii, taken from a natural event broadcaster David Attenborough. Ketakong is one of the largest carnivorous plants and produce spectacular traps that are not only able to capture insects, but also rodents like typical tikus.Ciri ketakong plants usually grow in large numbers. McPherson hopes remote locations inaccessible mountains that it would prevent poachers destroying it. In the same expedition, the team also found other ketakong namely Nepenthes deaniana have not seen the last 100 years, the last specimen of the species lost in fire herbarium in 1945.When it comes down the mountain, the team is still finding new species of plants sundrew, a type of plant with sticky traps that are members of the genus Drosera.
source: http://haxims.blogspot.com/2010/01/inilah-tanaman-pemakan-tikus.html

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