Is There a Carnivorous Plant in the Media?

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There's so many really cool plants out there that we could be representing it the media. You need producers to come and find you and say, we need plant expertas soft ao with i. It's called bog bithasa weo. We need more of this in media. Shout out to pokemon for modelling the character victory bell a fanged pitcher plant.

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