Nitrogen pollution is giving carnivorous plants on Swedish bogs so many nutrients that they don’t need to catch as many flies, new research by Loughborough University shows.
Pollution makes carnivorous plants lose their appetite
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Darwin’s “most wonderful plants in the world”.
- Image from Insectivorous Plants (Darwin, 1875). Taken from: The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
I think that it is safe to say that Darwin was fascinated, if not obsessed by carnivorous plants. In a letter to Asa Gray Darwin wrote: