Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Unique plant as Rats eaters


In this world there are some plants that can prey on small insects such as flies, crickets, ants, and others. One of these predator is Nepenthes sp.

Nepenthes, known as the à ¢ â, ¬ Å "Ketakongà ¢ â, ¬  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 giant semar bag.

It is 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 diindentifikasikan.

The new findings are indeed found at an altitude of about 1,600 above sea level. They found a great many plants ketakong and immediately knew that it was not a known species. The new crop is called Nepenthes attenboroughii, taken from the name of the broadcaster David Attenborough nature show. Ketakong is one of the largest carnivorous plant traps and produce spectacular is not only capable of catching insects, but rodents such as rats.

Typical 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.




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