Giant Byblis (lat Byblis gigantea)
Giant Byblis (lat. Byblis gigantea) is a species of carnivorous perennial plants from the genus Byblis of the Biblidae family. There were rumors about him as a man-eating plant. These are quite large (about 0.5 m high) perennials with woody rhizomes.
The leaves are thin and long, completely covered with sticky hairs and glands; It is estimated that one bush has up to 300 thousand hairs and 2 million glands. The glands secrete juice that helps digest prey.
The flowers are small, have five sepals and five bluish-violet or pinkish-red petals.
Flowering begins in spring.
The plant is insectivorous, the sticky liquid secreted by the hairs captures the victim, digestion occurs with the help of digestive enzymes secreted by the glands. It feeds on insects, snails, frogs, and sometimes small birds. This species is distributed in Western Australia, east of the city of Perth, on moist acidic soils along river banks, swamps or on sands that become waterlogged in winter and dry out in summer, as well as on the sandy plain between the Moore and Eneabba rivers. rivers. The giant biblis also often settles in burnt areas and disturbed habitats, disappearing from these places as natural vegetation is restored.
Suffering from collecting by amateur gardeners. The demand for giant bibles on the world market is growing every year. The habitats of this plant are protected in Moore River National Park.
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