What is the description of this kind?

Question

What is the Venus'Flower Basket. Is it a plant or an animal? Do u know its name in Vietnamese?

Answer 1

It is not a plant BUT an animal of the sea .

Venus' Flower Basket=== Read below for more info.-

The Venus' Flower Basket, or Euplectella aspergillum, is the only Hexactenellida in the phylum Porifera to be used in hobbyists' aquariums. ( It is sponge like marine animal )

This is because Hexactinellid sponges are mainly deep ocean sponges that are not suitable for domestic aquarium environments.

In traditional Asian cultures, this particular sponge was given as a wedding gift due to the fact that certain bioluminescent shrimp tend to form a symbiosis with them.

The sponge houses two small shrimp, a male and a female, who live out their lives inside the sponge.

They breed, and when their offspring are tiny, the offspring escape to find a Venus Flower Basket of their own.


The shrimp inside of the basket clean it, and in return, the basket provides food for the shrimp by trapping it in its fiberglass-like strands, and then releasing it into the body of the sponge for the shrimp.

It is also speculated that the light given off by the sponge may attract other small organisms which the shrimp eat.

For photo click on the links below ==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Venus_Flower_Basket.jpg

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~nhi708/treasure/venus/venus.gif

for more information click on the links below ==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus'_Flower_Basket

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~nhi708/treasure/venus/
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/zoologymuseum/treasures/venus.php
http://www.articlealley.com/article_16203_35.html

Important note = Venus' fly trap is a plant adapted to capture insects for food .
Venus' flower basket is a marine sponge or animal.

Answer 2

It is a plant that has an adaptation to getting some of the nutrients it needs from insects it captures instead of from the soil.

No.