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Today we look at the top 10 facts about Carnivorous Plants!

Number 10 - Most of the 600 carnivorous plant species can be divided into five categories: pitcher plants, sundews, butterworts, bladderworts, and Venus flytraps

Number 9 - The Venus’ flytrap may be the most famous plant carnivore, but Utricularia, or bladderworts, are the most widespread, found on every continent except Antarctica.

Number 8 - After a tiny insect touches a bladderwort’s trigger hairs and is sucked in to be devoured, it takes the plant only 30 minutes or less to reset its trap.

Number 7 - Removing Venus flytraps from the wild is a punishable felony. Perpetrators can expect as much as 25 to 39 months of jail time.

Number 6 - Some pitcher plants are so large, they can catch and consume rats or frogs.

Number 5 - Some plants use active sticky traps to trap insects.

Number 4 -.There are carnivorous plants underwater.

Number 3 - The oldest carnivorous plant leaf fossil was found in Baltic amber that’s 35 million to 47 million years old.

Number 2 - New species of carnivorous plants are being discovered.

Number 1 - Carnivorous plants wouldn’t be able to eat you if they tried.

So that was the top 10 facts about Carnivorous Plants. That took some thinking!

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