Tag: Carnivorous Plant
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21/150: The Plant That Bites Back
Plantae: Magnoliophyta: Magnoliopsida: Caryophyllales: Droseraceae: Drosera: Drosera linearis (Goldie) The slender leaf sundew (Drosera linearis) is a carnivorous plant that lives in boggy areas with nitrogen-poor soil. Their main diet consists of mosquitoes and other small insects, which they trap using sticky hair-like structures on their leaves. It can take the plant as little as…