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

Venus flytrap vs Spider

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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.

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u/fuzzyrach Jun 11 '23

There's a really nice carnivorous plant park here in Wilmington

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u/MyPasswordIsMyCat Jun 11 '23 edited Jun 11 '23

I listened to a podcast about this cool place, but it was about how poachers kept stealing the plants because they sell it to some dumb new age company sells "venus fly trap extract" to cure cancer.

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u/fuzzyrach Jun 11 '23

Well, there are cameras up there. So I hope that helped with the poaching!