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When Prey Becomes Predator: A Plant That Darwin Thought Was Carnivorous Really Is

Sticky hairs on the alpine flower Saxifraga led Darwin to posit that it might eat animals and 150+ years later, that has been shown to be true The concept of carnivorous plants is fascinating and terrifying, hence the dread inspired by the "Little Shop of Horrors". Plants are supposed to be mindless food, unthinking sessile creatures at the mercy of all motile life forms, from bacteria to c... [4567 chars]

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