Rat-eating Plant

Posted by BlackJack On Tuesday, August 18, 2009 0 comments


'Spectacular'

A rare, meat-eating, giant pitcher plant has been discovered by botanists in a remote mountaintop region of the Philippines. The enormous plant is supposed to eat rodents as on form as insects. Named Nepenthes attenboroughii, after eminent UK historian David Attenborough, the gargantuan decanter plants have direct resembling formations that trap animals once they drop keen on the plant.

The plant was initially discovered by Christian missionaries in 2000, other than be officially recognized when innate the past voyager Stewart McPherson, sovereign botanist Alastair Robinson, and Andreas Fleischmann of the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Germany set off to find the plant.

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