Chapter 828: Venus flytrap
What Luo Tong sees now is the most ordinary purple bottle, which is also the most on the market at present. Looking at the introduction of this bottle of grass, Luo Tong felt that it should be quite easy to feed.
But when he saw the price of the bottle grass, Luo Tong frowned again, a little expensive, a small pot of bottle grass. It's less than the size of a palm, and it's more than a hundred.
But looking at the appearance of this bottle of grass, she really likes it, do you want to stop looking at it?
With this in mind, Luo Tong wandered around the shop again. There are still many types of bottle grass in this shop, in addition to this common purple bottle, Luo Tong also saw cobra bottle grass.
This cobra bottle grass really scared Luo Tong just now. Its bottom leaves are no different from the common bottle grass, they are all tubular.
However, in the upper part, it is spherical and expands forward, resembling a cobra. There is a red grid-like pattern on the upper part of the bulge, and it looks like a strange beauty.
Luo Tong lowered his head slightly, and saw that there was a hole of ten to twenty millimeters underneath the leaf bulge, which was also the only opening in the whole leaf.
After a cursory look at the cobra bottle grass, Luo Tong looked at the next plant.
It has a short stem, with an insecttrap at the tip of the leaf that resembles a "shell", and regular prickly hairs around the edges of the leaf, which feel like the eyelashes of Venus.
The card describes it as a Venus flytrap, a type of vascular plant that is a popular insectivorous plant with complete roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and seeds.
Its leaves are the most important and obvious part, which has the function of preying on insects, with obvious stinging hairs and red sessile glands, which look like a bloody mouth with teeth and claws.
Because of the proximity, Luo Tong watched as a fly accidentally touched the leaf of the flytrap when it flew over the flytrap.
In the next second, as if in slow motion in a movie, the two leaves of the flytrap were closed, and the barbs on the leaves that were raw like eyelashes were completely intertwined, completely eliminating the possibility of the flies escaping.
From this small gap, Luo Tong could see that the flies couldn't struggle at all, and the leaves of the flytrap seemed to be covered with mucus, and the flies couldn't move at all.
It took about a minute or two for the two leaves of the flytrap to open again. Luo Tong took a look at it intently, and there was nothing on the leaves except for some red dots.
Seeing that Luo Tong had been looking at these red dots, the beautiful young man who didn't know when he walked to Luo Tong's side explained: "These red dots are the digestive glands of the Venus flytrap. ”
"Digestive glands?" this is a term that Luo Tong has never heard of, and he can't help but be very curious. She looked at the shopkeeper and realized that she didn't know when the girls had left.
"This digestive gland is located on the inside of the leaf, and when the Venus flytrap catches its prey, the digestive gland secretes enzymes that dissolve the soft tissues, killing bacteria and fungi, and breaking down the insect into the nutrients it needs, which are then absorbed by the leaf. ”
Speaking of this flytrap, the shopkeeper is talking eloquently, Luo Tong feels that the shopkeeper's eyes are bright at this time, maybe because he really likes it.
"It was a fly that just flew over, what if it was something else? If a person reached into it, would it be digested and decomposed?"
Luo Tong suddenly asked a very white question, and the shopkeeper smiled slightly: "Naturally, it won't, although for those insects, the flytrap is a bit scary, but for humans, this is not a big threat at all." ”
"You can reach in there, its clip won't hold you at all, but I would advise against it, because if you do, the flytrap's clip will be black and useless. ”
"When the time comes, we will have to wait for it to grow new clips and come out. The shopkeeper said very seriously, and Luo Tong withdrew his hand and stopped trying.
"Are there only these two leaves of the Venus flytrap, and no new ones will grow in between?" Luo Tong looked at the beautiful boy and blinked a little uncomfortably.
Alas, fortunately, she is married, if she usually sees such a high-value person, she really can't guarantee whether she can control herself.
It's all influenced by Zheng Wanqiu, if it weren't for her, would she be able to like to see beauties so much? Luo Tong put the pot on Zheng Wanqiu's head at this moment, and Zheng Wanqiu, who was shopping with Jingyu, suddenly sneezed twice without warning.
Jing Yu hurriedly sent the paper intimately, and asked for warmth. It's July, so why do you sneeze without a word?
Taking the tissue paper handed over by Jing Yu, Zheng Wanqiu wiped his nose: "I guess this must be who is talking to me behind my back, don't let me know who it is, see if I don't hammer him to death when the time comes!"
Not to mention how Zheng Wanqiu and Jing Yu were fighting, the shopkeeper smiled slightly when he heard Luo Tong's words: "Of course it's not just this pair of leaves, it's always replaced." ”
"After 3~5 hunts, the trap leaves no longer perform the function of catching prey, and only continue to photosynthesize for the next 2~3 months, and then fall off the plant and grow new trap leaves. ”
"If you're lucky enough to own a pot of Venus flytrap, you should be careful, because after the trap closes about 10 times without successful feeding, the leaf loses its ability to respond to stimuli and becomes only an organ of photosynthesis. ”
The beautiful boy was also surprised how he could say so many things to Luo Tong, obviously he was usually impatient to deal with the opposite sex who was chattering.
But after seeing the ring on Luo Tong's left hand, the beautiful boy knew that the other party had no intention of him, so he classified Luo Tong as harmless.
So in this case, in order to do more business, the beautiful boy naturally tried his best to tell Luo Tong this knowledge. Another reason is that by Luo Tong's side, the beautiful boy feels very comfortable.
"It's amazing, the plants in nature are really strange. Listening to the shopkeeper's introduction, Luo Tong muttered to himself.
If he hadn't stumbled into this store today, Luo Tong might have known about this rainforest plant for a long time, and maybe he would know it later, but it's hard to say in terms of time.
Thinking about it like this, Luo Tong suddenly became very curious about the tropical rainforest, if she had time to take a look at it one day?
Seeing that Luo Tong fell into his own contemplation, the beautiful young shopkeeper did not bother her, but found a kettle to water these plants.