Albany Pitcher Plant, Cephalotus follicularis
This plant is an ecologically unique carnivorous plant that only grows in wetlands of very restricted areas of coastal south-western Australia. Pitcher plants are specialised carnivorous plants with leaves modified into deep vase-like cavities, or pitchers, that contain a liquid in which trapped insects are dissolved by bacterial action and enzymes secreted by the plant itself. This plant can usually be found in swamps associated with two Myrtaceous |