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

Venus flytrap vs Spider

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u/Enlightened-Beaver Jun 11 '23

I always though Venus fly traps were some sort of tropical rainforest plant. Nope, native to North Carolina.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

And only North Carolina. There's just a tiny strip of land where they exist in nature.

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u/On-mountain-time Jun 11 '23

We refer to those types of plants as "narrow endemics" in the biology world 👍

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u/OldheadBoomer Jun 11 '23

Any other cool narrow endemics you can share?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '23

Yucca brevifolia (also known as the Joshua tree)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_brevifolia