What Do You Know About Plants?

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Tats are sweet, han e, earthy smells. There's like over 800 species of conniverous plants that theyre all kind of doin it a little differeent. I'll re read my notes tat like, oh. And then like a csful thot about life in salad,. or something like the tus hert on an tepping on this grass. It really differs across all the different species. They produce volatiles which are just different aromas from all other tissues.

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