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This sounds like an incomplete test. What was the control? Did they try sticking fruit flies to the stems of known non-carnivore plant?
by tantalor 5y ago
This sounds like an incomplete test. What was the control? Did they try sticking fruit flies to the stems of known non-carnivore plant?
- maxerickson 5y agoWhat's the test for a "known non-carnivore plant"? If it absorbs half it's nitrogen from insects that get stuck to the stem…
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoThen it could be a (weird) symbiote, or pick stuff up on contact
- neurostimulant 5y agoWell, terrestrial plants don't normally absorb nutrients from flower stalks, right?
- phito 5y agoThey definitely do absorb nutrients from leaves (check out foliar feeding), so it's not far stretched to imagine that they also could do the same from flower stalks