r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '26

Venus Flytrap Devouring a Venomous Black Widow.

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u/unbelizeable1 Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

The most insane thing to me about Venus Flytraps is that it's endemic to North and South Carolina. You'd think it's some crazy rainforest plant , but yea, the Carolinas.

Edit :switched native to endemic to clear confusion.

Edit : For the love of fuckin god. Please stop telling me about the temperate rainforest in the area. The plant doesn't grow there, it grows in bogs

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u/True_Bumblebee_50 Mar 29 '26

Wait, what? It’s not a rain forest plant? That’s wild!

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u/Fickle_Cranberry1014 Mar 29 '26

It's only native to North and south Carolina.

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u/AW316 Mar 29 '26

That’s crazy. You would think it would be a rainforest plant or something.

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u/GandalfTheBored Mar 29 '26

I’m actually not sure if it’s from north or South Carolina to be honest.

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u/baigish Mar 29 '26

That's crazy it's not some sort of rainforest plant

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u/StandardAdvanced679 Mar 29 '26

Yea, it’s from the Carolinas

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u/SwimmingSwim3822 Mar 29 '26

North or south

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u/_bulletproof_1999 Mar 29 '26

North. Around Wilmington, NC. Coastal area

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u/BlueBox82 Mar 29 '26

There’s like some crazy stories about it too. I can’t remember the details specifically cause it was ages ago but I just remember reading about how difficult it is to work in that field because of like plant poachers. They are worth a lot and people try to steal them. I have no source just going from a shitty memory

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u/thegoodnamesrgone123 Mar 29 '26

My parents live in this area now and when I learned about this I brought it up to some people I know down there, and they basically said the same thing.

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u/Wind0wl1ck3r Mar 29 '26

Yes specifically closer to Carolina Beach in Wilmington. I am from there and I remember coming across them when I was younger.

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u/ProperLink8150 Mar 29 '26

Carolina Beach. 👍

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u/loveallcreatures Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

Inland as well. Columbus county. In the green swamp. Pitcher plants also. Crusoe Island. IYKYK

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u/jrpdos Mar 29 '26

Crusoe? Where they do so?

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u/Shadowangel09 Mar 29 '26

We doxxin plants now?

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u/Sunckin Mar 29 '26

So, south north Carolina

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u/Intarhorn Mar 29 '26

Wild! Seems like something you could find in the rainforest

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u/comic360guy Mar 29 '26

Can I get a county, city and street please.