Carnivorous Phytobiology (MEAT-EATING PLANTS) with Hali’a Eastburn

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Alie Ward

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🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Flesh hungry plants. The world’s fastest hunters. Botany with brains? Seymour, it’s time to feed because we’re doing meat-eating plants with conservation ecologist and carnivorous phytobiologist, Hali’a Eastburn. Can a Venus Fly Trap digest human flesh? Do frogs think of pitcher plants as home or hell? How fast is a bladderwort? Are scientists anesthetizing plants? Why exactly DID they name a fly trap after the goddess of love? Also: homicidal plant tattoos, nature’s grossest vending machines, and what plants are most goth with a pair of real #bogbitches.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's that omelette that's set off your smoke alarm, alleyward.
0:04.0	And get your calendar ready.
0:05.5	May 4th, 2022.
0:08.1	World carnivorous plant day.
0:09.5	Did you know that?
0:10.5	I didn't until I dove headfirst into the watery wonders in this spiky jaws of this episode.
0:16.2	Plants that eat meat.
0:18.9	What?
0:20.6	What makes their carnivorous plant, you ask?
0:22.8	That's a good question.
0:23.8	They have to capture, kill, and digest their prey, and use the absorbed nutrients to grow.
0:30.3	I know you're thinking carnivorous plant got it, Venus fly traps.
0:33.5	And what else?
0:34.5	So much.
0:35.5	There are pitfall traps, like pitcher plants.
0:38.4	There are sticky fly paper traps.
0:41.3	There's bladder traps, which sound painful.
0:44.6	They're like insect vacuums.
0:46.7	There's lobster pot traps that have spikes.
0:49.2	You can't pass back through if you're a bug.
0:51.7	Oh, this is a good one.
0:53.1	So in the Northern hemisphere carnivorous plants tend to flower from May to July.
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