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The Corpse Plant

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The corpse plant is a remarkable carnivorous specimen that grows in the colony of Natal. lts principal feature is a bell sbaped mouth, with a throat opening into a hollow stem. It is almost black and covered with a thick glutinous secretion, while its odor is . very oft'ensive. This attracts carrion feeding birds to it, and once they alight on it they are lost. Their claws becorne entanglcd in the secretion, the bell shaped mouth folds up, and they are literally swallowed.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier