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Murderous plants: Victorian Gothic, Darwin and modern insights into vegetable carnivory

2009-12-01

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Darwin's interest in carnivorous plants was in keeping with the Victorian fascination with Gothic horrors, and his experiments on them were many and varied, ranging from what appears to be idle curiosity (e.g. what will happen if I place a human hair on a Drosera leaf?) to detailed investigations of mechanisms. Mechanisms for capture and digestion of prey vary greatly among the six (or more) lineages of flowering...

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Literature Corpus work: dcb37b3b-c343-507a-bac2-aa6ae17a7f10
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.01014.x

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