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Plants That Are Predators
As a refined Victorian gentleman, Charles Darwin naturally gravitated toward the macabre, and few things fascinated him like those floral flouters of the conventional food chain: carnivorous plants. He experimented with them and wrote a major treatise about them. He called the Venus flytrap, with its elaborate hair-trigger snap trap and its lethal brew of digestive juices, “one of the most wonderful plants in the world.”
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Me and a friend went on a carnivorous plant walk this summer and it was truly amazing. I saw two kinds of pitcher plants and lots of fly traps. It was great!