11 Carnivorous Plants (PHOTOS)

These plants may look like sweet, innocent flowers, but don't be fooled -- they are meat-eating killers! Carnivorous plants are those that don't just rely on sun power for energy -- they get nutrients from "eating" animals or insects.

These amazing plants have evolved to employ many different techniques to satiate their hunger: from snapping a trap closed to sucking their prey into their bladder to trapping critters through its sticky mucus-like glands.

Check out these incredible plants and tell us which is the most impressive.

Cape Sundew Plant

By employing a "flypaper trap" through the sticky glands found on its leaves, this cape sundew plant is able to capture two dragonflies. After prey land on the plant, the other tentacles move to further trap the prey. The plant is then able to digest its prey through enzymes also found on the glands.



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