Plants that kill - but why?
Some plants are conspicuous killers. Are they murderous or are they carnivorous - including proto-carnivorous, semi-carnivorous, para-carnivorous, or sub-carnivorous? So much carnivory!
An article at the International Carnivorous Plant Society website discusses the ways that taxonomists, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists differ in their approaches. The article also describes the “rather horrid plants that everyone needs to grow once to fully appreciate life.” This article is food for thought. Read it here: Murderous Plants.
In another matter, I was recently interviewed on Bull Falls Radio, WXCO in Wausau, Wisconsin. Host Bob Look started the hour-long show talking with Jane Graham Jennings of the Women’s Community. Then he and I had a fun chat. I happen to have been a high school classmate of Bob’s, and he and I have both fulfilled our youthful goals. He’s on the radio (and he sounds slick!), and I’m writing science fiction novels.