Carnivorous plant traps worms with sticky leaves

Monday, January 9, 2012 - 18:00 in Biology & Nature

Plants eat the darndest things. Scientists have discovered a small flowering plant living in the sandy soils of Brazil that traps nematodes, or roundworms, with sticky underground leaves -- and gobbles them up.

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