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  2. Carnivorous plant - Wikipedia

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    An upper pitcher of Nepenthes lowii, a tropical pitcher plant that supplements its carnivorous diet with tree shrew droppings. [1] [2] [3]Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods, and occasionally small mammals and birds.

  3. Euphorbia cupularis - Wikipedia

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    The Zulu also refer to E. cupularis as umbhulelo: a harmful poison or medicine used in a trap, [10] of which umdlebe is one, or an ingredient of one. [11] [12] Used by witches, [13] it is usually considered wholly vile, any association with umdlebe is proof the person in question is an umthakathi: [14] one who secretly uses evil medicine or charms.

  4. Pitcher plant - Wikipedia

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    Scanning electron micrograph inner surface of pitcher plant Pitcher plants growing in a bog in Pennsylvania. Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid. The traps of pitcher plant are considered to be "true" pitcher plants and are formed by ...

  5. Detritus - Wikipedia

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    In saltwater bodies, organic material breaks down and forms a marine snow. This example of detritus commonly consists of organic materials such as dead phytoplankton and zooplankton, the outer walls of diatoms and coccolithophores, dead skin and scales of fish, and fecal pellets. This material will slowly sink to the seafloor, where it makes up ...

  6. Amorphophallus titanum - Wikipedia

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    The heat is also believed to contribute to the illusion of it being a dead body, to attract carcass-eating insects. [12] Both male and female flowers grow in the same inflorescence. The female flowers open first, and the male flowers open a day or two later. That usually prevents the flower from self-pollinating.

  7. Human composting is rising in popularity as an earth-friendly ...

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    Human composting turns bodies into soil by speeding up “what happens on the forest floor,” according to Tom Harries, CEO of Earth Funeral, the human composting company the Muckenhoupt family ...

  8. Polypore - Wikipedia

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    Forms of polypore fruit bodies range from mushroom-shaped to thin effused patches that develop on dead wood. Perennial fruit bodies of some species growing on living trees can grow over 80 years old (e.g. Phellinus igniarius). [13] Most species of polypores develop new, short-lived fruit bodies annually or several times every year.

  9. Oh, no! Your native plants look dead. Here's what to do - AOL

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    And the thickets of shrubs, flowers and trees work together to provide food and shelter for insects and pollinators that help the plants spread and flourish. Name tags identify the native plants ...