KILLER PLANTS – Petunias, Potatoes …

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New review on carnivorous flora suggests that a number of plants previously thought innocent may actually be murderous.
“We may be surrounded by many more murderous plants than we think,” said botanist Mark Chase, Keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in England.
That’s according to a new review on carnivorous plants which suggests that a number of commonplace, garden-variety plants like petunias and potatoes deserve to be classified as meat-eaters just like the Venus flytrap and pitcher plants.
Source: Bryan Nelson, MNN – Mother Nature Network
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