#i love that pitcher plant paper especially bc in the materials and methods section they developed an equation

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ok I know im reblogging this post yet AGAIN but i just wanted to say that this mutualistic relationship came up on the awesome podcast In Defense Of Plants a few days ago in an interview with botanist Dr. Chris Thorogood, who studies nepenthes (this specific pitcher plant genus) and several parasitic plant families! he references that they hide there in the day and raise their babies there, then goes on to talk about mutualistic relationships in other pitcher plants, like the one (nepenthes lowii) that’s just a toilet for a giant rodent species lmao (original paper with data and things here if u wanna read more about this specifically):

you can listen to the episode here, the pitcher plant talk starts around the 20 minute mark! 

Me in my house welcoming you with excitement