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I have heard of animal that eat plants, and I have heard of animals that eat animals, and I have heard of plants the eat animals, but are there any plants that eat other plants?

 

 

Gurvinder Bhandal,

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electrolaser says:

depends what you mean by eating there are ,many parasitic plants that get all the nutrients they need (apart from glucose) i.e misteltoe and even some that do not photosynthesise and get  all of their nutrients from their host i.e Greater Dodder.

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posted on 2010-03-25 18:14:55 | Report abuse

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Jon-Richfield says:

Quite. And the range of such parasitic plants is amazingly large and the way in which they feed is too.  Some are critically dependent on other plants for food and have practically no stored food even in their seeds (like Striga, witchweed, growing on the roots of grains), whereas others, like the Australian "Christmas Tree" (Nuytsia) look innocently normal, but parasitise the roots of plants many metres away. 

You might argue that this is not the same as eating plants, but it does feed the culprit, and it sometimes kills the host. Sounds like "eating" to me!

 

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posted on 2010-03-28 14:57:35 | Report abuse


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