Venus Fly Traps Cure Pox Viruses

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indigenous uses of pitcher plants include everything from using the leaf as a vessel and the roots to treat small pox and lung illnesses. The leaves were used as a tea to treat fevers, kidney issues and during childbirth. And there was a small, 20, 12 study that seemed to suggest that seracena extract could inhibit viral application but jury's still out on that research. But should you becon in them people? We wonder.

Flesh hungry plants. The world’s fastest hunters. Botany with brains? Seymour, it’s time to feed because we’re doing meat-eating plants with conservation ecologist and carnivorous phytobiologist, Hali’a Eastburn. Can a Venus Fly Trap digest human flesh? Do frogs think of pitcher plants as home or hell? How fast is a bladderwort? Are scientists anesthetizing plants? Why exactly DID they name a fly trap after the goddess of love? Also: homicidal plant tattoos, nature’s grossest vending machines, and what plants are most goth with a pair of real #bogbitches.

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Donations were made to North American Sarracenia Conservancy and Kauluakalana