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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.
This variety of pitcher plant thrives at high altitudes in southeast Asia. While most of its close relatives climb trees with their grapelike vines, Leibovitch says Veitch’s follows a pattern ...
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 ...
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Some of the pitcher plants used in Dr. Gaume and colleagues’ research are native to North America — in fact, they can be found in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Dr.
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 ...
Updated: 1:47 PM EDT Jul 1, 2022 By Katie Hunt, CNN Carnivorous plant that traps prey underground is the 1st of its kind to be discovered Updated: 1:47 PM EDT Jul 1, 2022 MM Yeah mm.