Plants

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What is the name of your plant? What does it look like? Other names for the plant? Where does the plant live? What does it need to survive? What are its (enemies) and why?

[|Venus flytrap] is a very cool plant. Another name for Venus flytrap is dionaea muscipula. It is one of the few plants that can move rapidly. It catches it's pray when it triggers one of the small hairs inside of the leaf then it closes the mouth and the spikes on top traps the prey. It eats it's prey by sealing the leaf very tightly so the prey don't escape. It takes ten days to digest then reopens the mouth and is ready to eat. The Venus flytrap lives in wetlands on the floor level.This plant looks like a little ball cut open with little spikes poking out of the edge.The Venus flytrap needs food, water, and sunlight to survive. Humans are the enemies because humans take the Venus flytrap out of the venus flytraps natural habitat and they die. These plants are threatened and almost extinct.The Venus flytrap is a very interesting plant. The Venus flytrap is known for its ability to eat insect. Here is an idea of how much it eats: thirty three percent ants, thirty percent spiders, ten percent beetles, ten percent grasshoppers, and five percent flying insects. The Venus flytrap lives in the deep rainforest were it rains a lot.

The Cobra Lily The Cobra Lily is a plant similar to the Venus fly trap. It also has a lot of names. The latin name for the cobra lily is Darlingtonia California. Some other names are Cobra Lily and California Pitcher plant. The cobra Lily is a carnivore because cobra Lilly's eat flies and other insects. The Cobra Lily is named Cobra Lily because on the outside of the plant it looks like a snakes tongue. The plant eats flies and other small animals to survive. Cobra Lilies grow in bogs. A bog is a wetland that has moss on it. The reason the Latin name for the cobra lily is the Darlingtonia California is because it was named after William DARLINGTONIA Brackenridge.

Did you know that the the [|Strangler Fig] tree is very important to the tropical rain forest. This tree is located almost in every rain forest on this planet. Most animals like the fig tree because of its sweet fruit. There is a lot animals in the rain forest that depends on the fig tree to survive. There are only to types of species that eat the fig tree to survive and those are herbivores and omnivores. The Strangler Fig protects its self by wrapping its arms around trees so tight that the trees predators have a very hard time biting the tree.

[|The Kapok tree] is an emergent. An [|emergent] is the very top layer of the tropical rainforest. It's one of the trees of the rainforest. Some people call it majestic. Kapok trees grow to the height of 150 feet or more, over the trees of the rainforest. The Kapoks trunk can grow to nine feet wide. People are its predator they will chop them down. Some animals live in this tree like a monkeys and birds.

[|Jambu] is a fruit, but not everyone calls it jambu. It is also known as jambu Ayer, Djamboe Aer or, Watery Rose Apple. Jambu grows in Southern India or Eastern Malaya. It can grow up to 20 feet tall. This fruit grows on a tree or on a large shrub. The branches on a jambu tree grow close to the ground. The enemies of the jambu plant are monkeys, [|gibbons], and [|Jambu fruit doves] because they eat the plant. To survive jambu needs a lot if

My plant name is Bougainville. The leaves look like little hearts with drip tips at the end they are dark rich green and look almost like ivy leaves. This plant grows in the biome of the Amazon rain forest in South America. The root system of the Bougainville is very fragile and doesn't form a good firm root ball. It can live with a lot of water it just doesn't like to hold the water for a long time. Bougainville doesn't like swampy areas because of the lack of soil drainage.

The Coconut Tree likes to grow in hot areas. People believe that the coconut tree is the symbol of roman. Some of the coconut trees can grow up to be 50-80 feet tall. There are a lot of different kind of coconut trees around hot areas. It takes the coconut tree a long time to grow. It could take up to a year or more for the coconut tree to mature. The coconut tree could grow up to 50 coconuts. People use different parts of the coconut tree to make all kinds of stuff like lotion and oil. They make the oil with parts of the dried up meat from the coconut tree that contains protein, sugar and vitamins. The coconut rarely grows in cold areas. People like to play on the coconut tree they like to climb and hang on them. People climb the coconut tree because some of them lean over. it is really easy to climb on them. The coconut tree has helped people from the Pacific with shelter, food, drinks, and more.

Curare Curare, also known as, grieswurzel grows as a large vine, found in the canopy of South American Rainforests. The vine gets as thick as four inches. It has large heart shaped leaves which may be up 4-8 inches long. Curare is used in many different ways. The South American Indians used curare as a poison for hunting down game. We now use it for medicine to help fevers, external bruises, and kidney stones. Curare

Curare is the name of this plant it looks like a heart shaped leaf with a white hairy bottom it starts getting hairy at the leaf base they can also so be a greenish white looking color. Well there is a lot of names for my plant but there are its common names like grieswruzel,pereira bravo,pereira,vigne squvage. Curare lives in canopy vines in south America rainforest. It needs sunlight lots of rain and most of all it needs to have a lot of nutrients so it can grow its fruits. It's enemies are humans because they crush it to make medicine and poison darts for there weapons the medicine is used for edema,fever,and kidney stone. The darts are tipped with this poison so they can go on wild games or attack intruders.

[|The Orchid] is a purple flower that you get at the store. They get the orchid from the tropical rainforest. They have a very short stem and they need a strong stem to support them.[|There are many kinds of orchids]like orchid light, orchid medium, brassica orchid. The Orchid flower grows o. tops of trees with no dirt, attaches to other plants like a telephone pole or trees. It is known as an air plant because it gets food and water from the air. Orchids enemies are [|Ovachlamys fulgens.]