New carnivorous plant found

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If you hike through a mountain bog along the West Coast of North America in midsummer, there’s a decent chance you’ll run into a false asphodel (Triantha occidentalis), an unassuming flower that shoots up dark green stalks with white blooms.

As it turns out, the plant, found from Alaska south to California, has been hiding a secret from the human race: It’s a carnivore.

Recently, botanist Qianshi Lin heard from a fellow student at the University of British Columbia that the plant had structures on its flower stalk that looked a little like the sticky traps that other carnivorous plants, such as sundews, use to catch insects. So Lin decided to figure out if the same might be the case for this flower.

Lin’s research shows that, indeed, false asphodel, a plant known to science for over a century, traps and digests small insects. As much as two-thirds of the nitrogen in its leaves comes from these animals, according to a study published August 9 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“This kind of plant turns the tables on animals and eats insects, which is quite cool,” says Lin, who is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto.

Source - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/newfound-carnivorous-plant-lives-in-mountain-bogs

[LastNight 5,943]

I thought this said coronavirus plant for a second there 

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Why is this flower is so me?

By that I mean, being pretty but can eat you alive?!

Yes, Zaddy!!!

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14 minutes ago, LastNight said:

I thought this said coronavirus plant for a second there 

Same 

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Ngl, it’s actually pretty.