1. attracts prey through the use of lures,coulor odors and directional guides. 3. secretes digestive enzymes and absorbs digested materials. Carnivorous plants grow in nutrient poor habitats throughout the world from acid peat bogs, sphagnum bogs to the tropical jungles of South East Asia, and the flooded savannahs of Africa. Many carnivorous plants require permanently wet conditions, as this might suggest, although others live in very dry sandy soils. However, the characteristic common to all their habitats is the lack of nutrients in the soil.
All carnivorous plants have traps to be able to extract nutrition from their prey.
There are two main categories to divide the trapping mechanisms into. Active traps that are triggered by the prey and passive where the prey fall in or stick without a way to escape. Inside these types there are different sub-divisions of each section. The active steel traps means that they have two leaf lobes that bends in the center and close on the prey like a set of jaws. The trap is triggered when insect touching at least two of the three trigger hairs in the trap simultaneously or touching one within 20 seconds of the first trigger hair is being touched.