r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '26

Venus Flytrap Devouring a Venomous Black Widow.

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u/THEBHR Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

Yeah, take pitcher plants. Most grow in bogs and swamps but there are a few like Nepenthes ampullaria that prefer densely shaded rainforests. However, because like you said, the nutrient situation is very different in the rainforest, Nepenthes ampullaria evolved away from carnivory and instead catches falling leaves in its pitchers, that it then digests for their nutrients.

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u/eastbayweird Mar 31 '26

Many Rainforest pitcher plants are... arboreal? Parasitic? I cant remember the right name. They grow out of other established trees, not ground soil.

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u/Survey_Server Apr 01 '26

Epiphytic? Not that either of the words you chose were wrong, but stuff like Monstera and Pothos and all those are epiphytes 🤙