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Low Nutrient Soils
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Habitat: Low Nutrient Soils

Tubular leaf rosettes and a flowering stem of the carnivorous bromeliad, Brocchinia reducta. At least two of the 19 species of Brocchinia supplement their growth by digesting insects trapped in their leaf bases. Carnivory is unusually common in the tepui flora, a result of the acidic, extremely nutrient-poor substrates.

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