Giant Rat-Eating Nepenthes Plant Discovered!

He may be best known for his mellifluous tones and gentle manner, but for one group of botanists Sir David Attenborough clearly conjures up different associations. Explorers who discovered a new species of giant rodent-eating carnivorous plant have named it after the TV naturalist.

Nepenthes attenboroughii, a previously unknown variety of pitcher plant discovered on a remote mountain in the Philippines, is so big that small rodents could be trapped inside and slowly dissolved by flesh-eating enzymes.

It is thought that only a few hundred of the plants exist, growing only on one mountain on the island of Palawan. The species was discovered by a team of scientists who had heard reports from missionaries who got lost in the dense jungle.

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at all the Teabaggers, Birthers, and other juicy Wingnuts prancing about.

Feed me Seymour ! Feed me all night long !

I wonder how long until they're cultivated and available.

Then again, I had some Nepenthes and couldn't keep them alive.