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Old 27-05-2015, 06:27 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Teasels - carnivorous

"Judith in England" wrote


I grew some teasels two years ago: and last year grew some more from their
seeds.

They are doing fantastically well - very healthy. I noticed again the
amount
of water which collects in the leaf bases - and then I saw a number of
small
slugs and snails - drowned - in some of them. I wondered if they were
acting
a bit like a Pitcher Plant - and were carnivorous in any way. A few
searches
about teasels and I find that lo and behold they are.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...l.pone.0017935


(Off out now to catch some flies to feed my teasels)


So will you be feeding your Teasels with maggots as per the experiment? :-)
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
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