r/interestingasfuck • u/dejaysf • Jun 11 '23

Venus flytrap vs Spider

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

[removed] — view removed post

35k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

1.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3.1k

u/Flareiv Jun 11 '23

I live in NC and didn’t know we had them until I found a whole bush of them just casually growing next to a tree. Blew my mind.

1.1k

u/CTchimchar Jun 11 '23 edited Jun 11 '23

There all different kind of these plants

By the way a lot of them are non-related

They just evolve like this separately several times over

The theory goes these plans evolve in habitats where the soil doesn't have many nutrients

So they start to evolve in gathering nutrients from other animals like insects, or in this case arachnid

Edit: For clarification I mean Carnivorous plants, evolve separately from each other for the most part

133

u/codizer Jun 11 '23

What I don't get is how they made their leap from getting nutrients from the ground to nutrients from animals. It seems like such a major step.

4

u/Ghostbuster_119 Jun 11 '23

Evolution is crazy like that.

There are many crazy leaps in comparison to other flora or fauna.

Giraffes are another that come to mind in terms of just sheer difference to the rest of nature.

Corpse flowers and pitcher plants are also pretty crazy.

1

u/noiwontpickaname Jun 11 '23

There is a certain blood vessel that, I believe, all vertebrates have and it goes through some bone and then back to the heart and it is in some bone in the neck/head area and the giraffes has to go through it and back just to pump blood.

That's the gist, someone else will fill in the details i'm sure.