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carrion flowers carnivorous plants leaf blade flowers smell stinking flowers smelling amines darlingtonia californica typical flower active traps foul smelling flowering plants digestive enzymes amines are also produced passive trap carrion insects stinkiest arum
Stinking Flowers
... of fresh pollen to be taken to a different plant. One of the classic insect-trapping carrion flowers is the European Dutchman's pipe (Aristolochia clematitis), a member of the ... female flowers reach maturity at different times, cross pollination between different plants is the normal mechanism for sexual reproduction and seed production. Female flowers are typically receptive before the anthers ...
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Carnivorous Plants
... interlocked (intermeshed) when the blade folds closed, thus trapping the insect like bars in a jail cell. The action of this remarkable mechanism involves a rapid loss of turgor pressure within ... the eelworm body and proceeds to digest and absorb it. Exactly what triggers this lassoing mechanism has been the subject of considerable scientific speculation. It undoubtedly involves a chemical reaction ...
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