THE ATHENAEUMInsectivorous PlantsCharles Darwin
Natural History
Insectivorous Plants
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textDarwin fed the sundew on scraps of meat, egg, hair and glass to find out what it would digest and what it would merely hold. He found that its tentacles could feel a fragment of hair weighing a tiny fraction of a milligram. In 1860 he told Lyell that he cared more about Drosera than about the origin of all the species in the world.
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- Reading time
- About 10 hr 25 min
- Where to find it
- The Naturalist’s Cabinet
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #5765. In the public domain in the United States.