00:00Good evening, Kapuso! I am your brother, Kim, who will give you the trivia behind the trending news.
00:10What does the plant hobbyist we met in Negros Occidental eat at this time of the day?
00:15His plants are eaten by insects and small animals. What kind of plant is this?
00:21When you enter this plant nursery in Murcia, Negros Occidental, you feel like you are in a different world.
00:30The plants that grow here, you can only see them on TV or movies.
00:35Like this one, which looks like a pixel.
00:37While this plant, it looks like a mouth that will grow a tooth.
00:41And not only their appearance is different, but also their diet.
00:45Yes, they eat.
00:47And their craving for insects and small animals is what they call a carnivorous plant.
00:52A plant that Rafael is taking care of.
00:54I started in 2021. I wanted to start something different.
00:59I saw the carnivorous plant.
01:01One of the first plants Rafael took care of were Venus Flytraps.
01:05It is active, it eats insects when it enters the traps.
01:10Until he realized that his exotic collection has changed.
01:14I have different kinds of carnivorous plants.
01:17I have pitcher plants, saracenia, pingicula.
01:21Maybe more than 200 to 300 plants.
01:24At first, I was intimidated because I only saw them in movies.
01:29But when you see it and take care of it, it's not that hard.
01:34But isn't it dangerous to take care of carnivorous plants?
01:38Brother Kim, why do carnivorous plants eat insects and small animals?
01:43Brother Kim, why?
01:46Plants need water, sun, and the nutrients they get from the soil.
01:51Carnivorous plants live on soils that are not very good.
01:56That's why they lack the nutrients they get here.
01:58This is the reason why they need to eat small insects and small animals for them to live.
02:04There are different kinds of carnivorous plants and different ways of eating prey.
02:08This is one of them.
02:09The Venus flytrap has small leaves around it that are its feelers.
02:13And it feels when it comes close.
02:15When it closes, the prey is trapped.
02:17It produces digestive enzymes where the prey is digested and it eats it.
02:22And this is the pitcher plant.
02:24That's why it's called a pitcher plant.
02:25It has a pitchel that contains sticky liquid.
02:28When the insect enters it, it will be trapped in the liquid and it will be digested.
02:32And it will digest and eat its food.
02:35But is it dangerous to take care of carnivorous plants like Rafael?
02:39It's not dangerous.
02:40They only eat insects.
02:42And the biggest prey they eat is fish.
02:46I'm sure many of you will grow up with this carnivorous plant.
02:49Because this is the biggest.
02:51Not only in the Philippines, but all over the world.
02:54It's named after the famous naturalist, Sir David Atemboro,
02:58the Nephentis atemboroi or Atemboro's pitcher plant.
03:02It can reach up to 1.5 meters while its pitchel diameter is 30 centimeters.
03:08That's why it's the biggest carnivorous plant in the world.
03:11And did you know that it was the first to be seen at the summit of Mount Victoria in Palawan?
03:15This proves how rich the biodiversity is in our country.
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