NEW CARNIVOROUS PLANT DISCOVERED IN THE PHILIPPINES


	NEW CARNIVOROUS PLANT DISCOVERED IN THE PHILIPPINES

tanyamm

8-14-2009 9:30 AM

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8-14-2009 12:46 PM

murieleileen

It's neat when they discover new living things. Especially in light of all the disappearing ones.

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When two missionaries in the Philippines tasked themselves with hiking up Mt. Victoria, they got more than they bargained for. The fact that they got <SPAN>lost </SPAN>for 13 days in their ill-prepared attempt was more than made up for (among botanists, at least) by what they <SPAN>found</SPAN>. It seems like something out of a fairytale, complete with pink ferns and blue mushrooms. And to make sure it is a true fairytale, complete with danger lurking in the shadows: a carnivorous plant.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2009/08/phillipine-fairytale.html"><DIV>Their talk of finding large pitcher plants prompted a 2-month expedition by pitcher plant experts in the hinterlands of the Phillipines. They did indeed find a pitcher plant so large that it not only dines on the more mundane insects, but also on creatures as large as rats (and small, wayward children who don't obey their parents). This new species is named <I>Nepenthes attenboroughii</I> after David Attenborough.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/036B92C1-8D22-4D81-9ED8-50CD6DF45E84/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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