• @RestrictedAccount
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    67 months ago

    It started as a flowering plant. As it got some early carnivorous genes, if it killed the pollinators it would not reproduce.

    It slowly turned into the terrifying plant we know and love.

    • @sploosh
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      47 months ago

      Before it got jaws it was a glue trap. Venus flytraps are an evolutionary offshoot of Drosera, the sundews.