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Letter: Eats, shoots

Published 26 February 2014

From Subramaniam Divakaran

In her discussion of excrement-eating pitcher plants in Borneo (1 February, p 43) Stephanie Pain suspects the many species of Nepenthes may still have a few surprises in store. Here’s one possibility: I wonder if the juices they produce have a laxative effect to promote output?
Euless, Texas, US

Issue no. 2958 published 1 March 2014

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