Singapore Trip - Photo Gallery III -Gardens By The Bay - Cloud Forest

Here are photos of the Cloud Forest visited by us. It is a huge area enclosed in glass with controlled temperature and humidity to enable these exotic plants to thrive and grow.

I was particularly attracted by the pitcher plants ( 4, 43, 48 and 49 ) which belong to the family of carnivorous plants. The 'pitchers' are designed to trap insects and even small rodents which move in the area; the pitchers have sticky substances to which the insects get stuck. The plants 'digest' these insects to derive nitrogen required for their growth. The sight took me back in time-machine to my High School days where in General Science, i had read about the carnivorous plants and had only seen their pictures in books. 

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