• drolex@sopuli.xyz
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    20 hours ago

    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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      11 hours ago

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

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        9 hours 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.