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Unusual Plants

Non-green plants like mushrooms and yeasts get their food from dead
and decaying plants and animals.

Insect-Eating plants

Some plants trap insects in their leaves and branches and eat them.
Example: pitcher plant, sundew. They are called insectivorous plants.

Venus Flytrap Plant Pitcher Plant Sundew Plant

Uses of plants

g We get most of our food from
plants. Grains, fruits, vegetables, * What are non-green plants?

tea and coffee, cooking oil and * What are insect-eating plants?
spices are all plant products. * Do you eat mushrooms?
* Give some uses of plants.
g Plants make world beautiful and
green and keep air clean and fresh.

g We get medicines from neem, tulsi,
etc.

g Wood is used for making furniture

and constructing houses.

g Plants help in bringing rain.

g For fruits and vegetables, we totally
depend on plants.

g Plants give us fibres such as cotton

and jute. We make cloth from
fibres.

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