Plant Intelligence

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When cray falls in, there's m rna in pitcher tissues that gets right up regulated. So whether it's citen or certain protens or even ammonia amuisis found in some insects, it'll start producing enzymes to like, custom blak it down. There's a lot of flexibility in these plants, oer, and we really don't know a lot about that.

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