Do They Digest Your Finger Sometin?

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First time question asker: If one were to dangle a pinky finger into a pitcher plant for a few days to a week, would it start to digest said finger? Doctor rice answered when opportunity knocked in the form of a bad case of athlete's foot he got from his carodidoto. He fed some of his own foot jerkey to some lobes of venus fly trap,. alongside an earwig appetizer for some movement and pasas. And a week later, when the lobes yawned open, he discovered, yes, the plant ate his dried foot.

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