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Carnivorous plant facts and growing tips

Carnivorous plants consume other living creatures for their food. Learn facts about growing Venus flytraps, pitcher plants ...
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Carnivorous plants reinvent plant nutrition and, with traps such as Dionaea and Nepenthes, show highly precise convergent evolution

It is easy to feel sorry for the small bugs that end up as lunch for hunters like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps, and ...

A Biologist Explains Why Some Plants Eat Meat Instead Of Soil

Carnivorous plants look like botanical oddities, but their behavior is not a gimmick. It is a precise evolutionary solution ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Carnivorous plants come to town in traveling Savage Gardens exhibit

ENCINITASENCINITAS — A Venus flytrap will be among a slew of meat-eating plants coming to the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas as part of the traveling exhibition Savage Gardens “The Real and ...
Labroots

Some Plants May Have Become Carnivorous as a Defense Mechanism

Carnivorous plants are amazing, and researchers have spent a long time learning about their impressive abilities. Now scientists have found evidence that these mechanisms originated as defense ...
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4 plants that hunt underground

Carnivorous plants tend to live in environments where the soil can’t provide enough of the nutrients they need to survive, so ...
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The best offense is a great defense for some carnivorous plants

Insect-eating plants have fascinated biologists for more than a century, but how plants evolved the ability to capture and consume live prey has largely remained a mystery. Now,scientists have ...