And really, this isn't even the weirdest vegetal behaviour around. For instance, I've learnt that some trees share nutrients between each other thanks to a symbiotic fungus network, which clearly makes them a community, not just individual beings.
Titan Arum (Amorphophallus Titanum inflorescence can reach 3 meters high and smells like a rotting carcass, which attracts beetles and flies for pollination)
Hydnora Africana (it doens't perform photosynthesis, instead this parasitic plant feeds from the roots of another plant)
otherworldly...
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Next acquisition for my terrarium will be a Cepahlotus Follicularis 'Hummer's Giant'. Very alien looking too, and it's carnivorous (it attracts, traps and digests insects).
Here's one so you can see how strange that plant is:
To reference another thread... the photo of the flower pods opening invoke a bit of what I'd imagine the Wormface creatures looked like in Heinlein's Have Spacesuit Will Travel.
They are beautiful, but also a bit terrifying in that context
-Allan
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