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The term trap flowers encompasses various plants that set traps for the absorption of vital nutrients and thus primarily catch insects. If an animal gets caught in the trap of a trap flower, it is slowly decomposed by the addition of special digestive juices, whereby the plant absorbs all of the animal's proteins and uses them as nutrients. The mechanisms of the traps differ depending on the genus and type, the best-known representative of the trap flowers is the Venus fly trap. The leaves, arranged in pairs, take on an arched shell shape, the leaves closing at lightning speed as soon as an insect inside the leaf pair has touched one of the plant's sensitive touch hairs. Other trap flowers form special, sticky secretions on their surface, with which flies, mosquitoes and other animals stick to the plant and can no longer leave it on their own. Often, these sticky substances already contain a large number of enzymes, so that a trap flower can begin to digest the captured prey directly. Most plants of this type are appropriately named flower because they are able to develop flowers, but private breeders rarely attach importance to this, since the development of the flowers requires a lot of nutrients and in many cases causes the death of the plant.
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