Armed to the teeth or armed with teeth…that they chew live animals with? Because I’m only interested in the latter.
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Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 week agothere are trees armed to the teeth or extremely poisonous, many in euphorbiacae family. dynamite tree, machineel
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Redfox8@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Feeed mee Seymour
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 week ago
if you considered spines all along the trunk as teeth, and exploding fruit.
Eagle0110@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well there’s a fundamental difference between a carnivorous plant and a murderous plant who just kills.
There are many plants who kill large number of animals all the time, as defense measures for example. But a carnivorous plant specifically kills the prey in order extract nutrients from it and use it to benefit itself, and it does so using specialized adaptations specific for that purpose and not just accidentally (like a broken tree branch falling down killing somebody down below doesn’t make the tree carnivorous)
So a carnivorous plant needs to have ALL of these traits:
…in order to be considered a carnivorous plant.
Source: Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution from Oxford University Press
(HIGHLY recommend if you’re interested in this topic, it’s an extremely good book and the best comprehensive overview on carnivorous plants at the moment, with fairly up to date information from this rapidly developing field of study!