Plants That Are Vampires and Killers
A feature on carnivorous plants at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden describes Venus flytrap, sundew, and pitcher plant as deadly yet beautiful. Dr. C. Stuart Gager guides visitors through hothouses, detailing how these plants trap and digest insects with sensitive hairs, nectar, and pitcher liquids.
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden
C. Stuart Gager
Dr. Gager
Wilmington
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Botanic Garden
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Enchanted Plants With Deadly Habits At Brooklyn Garden
Readers tour a greenhouse exhibit exploring carnivorous, parasitic, and toxic plants. The piece describes bladderworts catching fish, sundews with sticky traps, pitcher plants in Georgia and Cuba, stranglers like dodder and mistletoe, and the monstrous ceriman. It notes rare palm Coccothrinax crinita from Cuba and warns of clever, dangerous plant behaviors amid a botanical menagerie.
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Georgia
Florida
North
South Carolina
Cuba
Tropics
Brooklyn
R. D. Hoyt
Clearwater
Fla
San Cristobal
Pinar del Rio
John Lewis
Childs
Hoyt
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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