在1999年“昆明世界园艺博览会”上有一种十分奇特的食虫植物———猪笼草。它与其他绿色植物的不同之处是:不从无机环境摄取和制造维持生命所需要的营养物质,而是依靠捕捉昆虫等小动物来谋生,这类植物被植物学家称为食肉植物,属国家二级保护植物。它主产地是亚洲热带地区,为攀 In the 1999 Kunming World Horticultural Exposition, there was a very exotic insectivorous plant—Nepenthes. It differs from other green plants in that it does not ingest and manufacture the nutrients needed to maintain life from an inorganic environment, but instead relies on the capture of small animals such as insects to make a living. Such plants are referred to by botanists as carnivorous plants. National secondary protection plants. Its main producing area is the tropical region of Asia.