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Carnivorous plants are already quite fascinating, but a newly discovered one ratchets up the weirdness factor even further. It's a type of pitcher plant, and it captures prey that lives underground.

Mechanics reveals the role of peristome geometry in prey capture in carnivorous pitcher plants ( Nepenthes ). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2023; 120 (38) DOI: 10.1073/pnas ...

No other species of pitcher plant known to science catches its prey underground.. The plant forms specialized underground shoots with small, white, chlorophyll-free leaves, the researchers said.