Cryptically Carnivorous Plant Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight, Waiting for Flesh

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Dupe "New carnivorous plant discovered in Pacific Northwest": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28121929

Does it count as a dupe if the original post is too old to reply to? (Genuinely curious)

yes, 1 year. From the FAQ:

> Are reposts ok?

If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

Thanks, I totally missed that - good to know.

that's pretty vague, first of all last month is in the last year; even if we assume in the last year to mean longer than a year ago the or so part can also imply leeway before that year is out (this is of course a regional usage, most places in U.S I think take last year or so to mean a year or more)

usage of vernacular speech while humanizing also has the effect of making things inexact.

And that's why we invented math!

yeah without math I wouldn't know I got downvoted from 1 to 0!

+1 for math. :^)

The submission is currently in the second-chance pool and we rarely see these marked as dupes, so I suppose it is fine.

If you don't know this list yet, it can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

Carnivorous plants are a lot more varied than I had expected. Catching insects on the surface of the stems seemed unsual at first but apparantly making insects stick to external parts of the plant is not uncommon at all. The most unusual way of catching insects seems to be found on utricularia/bladderworts instead which have bladders with underpressure inside that suck in prey when it mechanically disturbs the cap on the opening.

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