Onari Wickramasinghe

                                         There are over a quarter million plant species . only 600 or so are carnivorous . We call them this because they attract , trap and eat bugs . Like other plants they get their energy from the sun . But unlike other plants , they get their nutrients from their pray . carnivorous plants live in blogs and the places where the soil lacks nutrients. Most plants get nutrients from the soil . Carnivorous plants have turned to other sources.                                           The snap of the Venus flytrap is not the only way that plants eat bugs. pitcher plants trick their prey into landing on them . they offer nectar bribes to the foolish insects that would take them .                    ...

 'Milk rice' or 'Kiribath' is the Sri Lanka's traditional dish which can be seen at every occasion of celebration.  Sri Lankans prepare this delicious dish as a mark of prosperity and good luck at all important occasions.  People make milk rice as the first meal of the New Year which the family sits together and share .  Some people prepare milk rice on the 1st of every month , on birthdays , for house warming ceremonies and weddings .  Even the farmers consider this traditional dish as something sacred .  In their harvesting ceremonies they offer kiribath to God .                                              It is easy to make milk rice .   You have only to boil the rice well and add coconut milk with salt and mix it well .  Thereafter it is flattened on a dish and cut into diamond shaped piece .  kiribath  is generally ser...

                                                   🌳 A rain forest is a thick jungle which gets an unusually large amount of rain . Rain forests cover about 6% of the earth' s surface . They hold about one-half of the world's plant and animal types . The four layers of a rain forest are the emergent layer , canopy layer , understory layer and forest floor .  🍀 The emergent layer l is made up of very tall trees up to 200 feet high . They are usually evergreens . There is good sunlight .  The canopy layer forms a roof over the two remaining layers . Animals like snakes, toucans, and tree frogs live in this layer .                                      🌹 Not much sun reaches the next layer , the understory layer . plants then have to grow larger leaves to t...