The Nectars Are Sweet, Hain E, Earthy Smells

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I don't anthropomorphise plants because i don't look teran doftle know that they feel pain. We've uneseise pants ant been able to remove parts of them without any pain signals or pain reactions. But like, i don't know what theins ars like. And we'll get that little pug ing around er o. Was that fat little be a eet em around tor the season its? I don't attribute too much human behaviour to them, but sometimes it fells like it. Does that freak you out? Ever to think, like, if you anatesize a plant, it won't react the same way? does it ever mess with

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