The Carnivorous Plants

by B.E. Juniper and Barrie E. Juniper

Plants, as is now becoming widely recognised, exploit animals in almost as many ways as animals use plants; only rarely, however, do they eat animals in the sense of catching, holding, and devouring prey. The manner, however, in which they function as carnivores grants insights into plant form, function, and evolution not otherwise readily available. The diversity of morphological, biochemical, and commensal features generates both the lay and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0123921708
• ISBN13: 9780123921703
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 353 Pages