Discussion
Consider the following statements about Nepenthes/Pitcher plant :
A. This plant has leaves which are pitcher-shaped and the mouth is covered with a leaf.
B. This plant has a special smell that attracts insects to it.
C. This plant is very common in the cold deserts of Ladakh and Russia.
D. This plant can trap and eat small insects, frogs and even mice. These animals when land on the mouth of the plant, they get trapped and cannot get out of it.
The correct statements are
Answer: D
The correct statements are A, B and D.
The pitcher plant (Nepenthes) has leaves shaped into a pitcher with a lid-like leaf over the mouth (A). It gives off a smell that attracts insects (B). Insects, and in larger species even frogs and small mammals such as mice, slip on the rim into the pitcher, cannot climb out, and are digested by the fluid inside (D).
Statement C is false. Pitcher plants grow in warm, wet places, in India mainly in Meghalaya and the north-east, not in cold deserts like Ladakh. So options including C, and those leaving out B or D, are wrong.
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