Toxic Agents
Mineral elements are essential for animals as well as plants, but plants sometimes accumulate such high concentrations of minerals that they actually kill the animals that eat them. More information is available at the "List of Toxic Agents Found in Plants" web site. For mineral toxins, scroll down to the heading " Cheating poisons".
Visit the List of Toxic Agents Found in Plants web site
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Carnivorous Plants
Plants growing in bogs usually cannot obtain enough nitrogen from the soil, and in habitats like this, carnivorous plants that catch insects have a selective advantage over plants that cannot obtain nitrogen from digested insects. To see what types of plants these are, check out the "Carnivorous Plant Database".
Visit the The Carnivorous Plant Society - Plant Database web site
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