{"id":321211,"date":"2021-08-10T23:21:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T20:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/common-flower-is-first-carnivorous-plant-in-20-years\/"},"modified":"2021-08-10T23:21:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T20:21:31","slug":"common-flower-is-first-carnivorous-plant-in-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/common-flower-is-first-carnivorous-plant-in-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"#Common flower is first carnivorous plant in 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Common flower is first carnivorous plant in 20 years<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a new flesh-eating flower in the plant kingdom.<\/p>\n

The carnivorous cutie is the first of its kind identified in 20 years \u2014 despite the white flower\u2019s prevalence throughout the Pacific Northwest. <\/p>\n

Sean Graham, a botanist with the University of British Columbia, told NPR<\/a>, \u201cWe had no idea it was carnivorous.\u201d<\/p>\n

The flower, called a western false asphodel, was first documented in 1879, but scientists had no idea the plant consumed meat until now.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was not found in some exotic tropical location, but really right on our doorstep in Vancouver,\u201d Graham added. \u201cYou could literally walk out from Vancouver to this field site.\u201d<\/p>\n

Researchers had been working on an unrelated study when they noticed the asphodel, Triantha occidentalis<\/em>, exhibited a genetic deletion that\u2019s seen in other carnivorous plants. Scientists also noted that the flower had features which could be used to trap food.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then they have these sticky stems,\u201d explained Graham, whose study on the western white asphodel was published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a>. \u201cSo, you know, it was kind of like, hmm, I wonder if this could be a sign that this might be carnivorous.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI suspect that there might be more carnivorous plants out there than we think,\u201d said botanist Sean Graham.<\/figcaption>
Qianshi Lin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are less than 1,000 known species of carnivorous plants, which often app<\/a>ear in sunny and wet climates, with a soil that is scarce in nutrients \u2014 thus their evolution towards eating meat. <\/p>\n

To prove the flowers were drawing nutrients from insects, researchers tracked the Triantha<\/em> plant\u2019s uptake of nitrogen-15 isotopes that began in laboratory fruit flies, which scientists had placed on the plant\u2019s sticky stem. <\/p>\n

Results showed that half of the plant\u2019s nitrogen composition after feeding had come from the flies. <\/p>\n

They additionally discovered that tiny hairs on the stem produce a digestive enzyme found in other carnivorous plants. It\u2019s the first known example of such a plant using its stalk to trap and consume insects. <\/p>\n

Said Graham, \u201cI suspect that there might be more carnivorous plants out there than we think.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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