A friend of mine recently posed a question on his podcast about carrion plants. If you don’t know what one is, the carrion plant emits an odor that is very similar to rotting flesh.This odor attracts flies which serve to pollinate the flower. The question posed on my friend’s show was how? How does the plant know to do this?
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Works Cited
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Geek, Plant. “Why Everyone Should Grow Stapelia Plants.” Michael Perry – Mr Plant Geek, 28 Jan. 2018, mrplantgeek.com/2018/01/28/why-everyone-should-grow-stapelias.
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“Stapelia Gigantea – Plant Finder.” Missouri Botanical Garden, www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=276899. Accessed 22 Aug. 2021.
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Wikipedia contributors. “Stapelia Gigantea.” Wikipedia, 26 May 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stapelia_gigantea.
Music in this Episode
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Hidden Agenda by Kevin MacLeod, Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3872-hidden-agenda, License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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Investigations by Kevin MacLeod, Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3924-investigations, License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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March of the Spoons by Kevin MacLeod, Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4021-march-of-the-spoons, License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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