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Carnivorous plants digest prey to survive poor soils

Original: 🪴 TIL: # Carnivorous plants are predatory flowering # plants that photosynthesize yet still capture and digest # animals

Science users are sharing a fact about carnivorous plants: they photosynthesize like ordinary flowering plants but also capture and digest animals to obtain nitrogen, phosphorus and minerals missing from the acidic, waterlogged soils where they grow. An estimated 800 to 860 species exist worldwide, a figure many readers find surprising.

Why now: The surprising biology of plants that both photosynthesize and eat animals is circulating among science enthusiasts.

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• 🪴 TIL: # Carnivorous plants are predatory flowering # plants that photosynthesize yet still capture and digest # animals for # nitrogen , # phosphorus , and # minerals unavailable in the acidic, waterlogged soils where they grow. Roughly 800 to 860 species exist worldwide, and… · tksst@fediscience.org · 8

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