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Carnivory in Plants (mander.xyz)

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Because the flowers attract food in the form of insects. I must be missing something here.

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[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Carnivorous plants need to attract insects to feed AND to reproduce. Of course they don't want to eat the pollinators so they usually have flowers with long stems

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yep! The pitcher plants around here have high flowers and Venus Fly Traps have hilariously high flowers.

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

sundews too, and sarrencenia, aquatic plants. also we found out some pitchers attract mammals for thier nutrient rich poop"poop in thier pitchers" to get all that nitrogen.

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