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Plants are great. But plants that also specialize in pest control? Flawless. Carnivorous plants don’t just sound like ...
Carnivorous plants entrapped Sam Bookhardt when he was a kid in middle school. They eat flesh, after all, and look weird -- menacing, really. At least at first.
It’s the only Oregon State Parks property dedicated entirely to the preservation of a single plant species, harboring over a thousand carnivorous cobra lilies, or Darlingtonia californica.
California's own cobra plant, the only Western member of the American pitcher plant family, grows in cool bogs and needs to stand in cold water. Tropical pitchers need warmth and moisture, doing ...
Not far from Idaho, on the central Oregon coast at Darlington State Park, is a marsh reserve where anothe carnivorous plant called the Cobra Lily thrives.
From Venus flytraps to pitcher plants and bladderworts, explore the wonderfully weird world of carnivorous plants.
From Venus flytraps whose trap leaves snap shut around unsuspecting prey to the cobra lily's maze of false exits, carnivorous plants are creative killers.
The cobra lily, also known as the California pitcher plant, is comparatively lucky: Its stocks may be dwindling but its broad habitat affords something of a safety net.
What are carnivorous plants? Carnivorous plants attract, trap and digest animals for the nutrients they contain. There are currently around 630 species of carnivorous plant known to science. Although ...
From the (in)famous Venus Flytrap to the deadly Cobra Lily, some fascinating plants have adapted to become carnivorous. Check out these 7 carnivorous plants that eat animals.
Brad Dokken/MCTPitcher plant We tend to think of plants as mild-mannered. But some plants like to eat meat, and they catch their own food. If you're interested in these fascinating carnivores ...