Plants That Respond to Touch

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i found out plants that respond to touch are called sensitives. The venus fly trap was first called the fly trap sensitive, until some naturalists in the mid 17 hundreds were like, yo, come on. Two halves of a shellu kind of dewy, rimmed in hairs, sensitive to ye touch. So i'm sure right now there's a million cosovars of venus fly trapswo read them. I sun mabe, has anyone named any carnivorous plant species, audrey? or aubrey? Or aubrey too? I forgotaw, but i'm sureright now there's no audre cosovars. Faltis different

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