#unfortunately all my pitcher plant books are at home :pensive:

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*writing botany textbook* Some of the most interesting carnivorous pitcher plant species are native to Borneo and Indonesia. Many of these are endangered and face an increasing number of obstacles, including climate change, habitat loss, and poaching. However, Indonesian species and chadlike apex predator Nepenthes inermis, mucus lord of the Sumatran rainforest, is legally well protected by its government and is rated ‘least concern’ on the IUCN redlist. By capturing its prey in a dense and sticky viscous goop that sits at the bottom of the pitcher, it can flip to dump out rainwater making the pitcher top-heavy without releasing any living or dead partially-digested insects (deserving adversaries) from their hellish slime prison. This also serves to deliver a moment of empty hope to the afflicted. Critics may call this ‘cruel’, ‘a medieval torture method for bugs’, and ‘distracting from the real and dire problems of endangered pitcher plants in the region’, but they are wrong.

#that one pic reminded me of pitcher plants im thinkin about them again #unfortunately all my pitcher plant books are at home :pensive: #nepenthes #pitcher plants #carnivorous plants