04 Dec 2009
Scientists think 'killer petunias' should join the ranks of carnivorous plants

Well that explains it: our missing barn cats! I told Lorraine to stick to marigolds!

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Natural History Museum believe that carnivorous behavior in plants is far more widespread than previously thought, with many commonly grown plants -- such as petunias -- at least part way to being "meat eaters." A review paper, Murderous plants: Victorian Gothic, Darwin and modern insights into vegetable carnivory, is published today, December 4, 2009, in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.

(link) [EurekAlert!]

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