The Diversity of Carnivorous Plants

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Carnivorous plants are incredibly diverse, and i think that's something that people often nest because they automatically gate in fli trats. And carnivorous plants found on every continent, m et cetera. An artica too cold. Far too cold. Yo, find them a lot of places. Where oure going to find them though, is were there's a lot of water, where there water logged, where there’s a lot of light and not a lot of nutrients. The rest of the united states, there's fogs and swamps that have carnivorous plants all over the south ten up the eastern seaboard into canada at e aenter

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