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This plant’s sticky and sweet dew is a deathly trap for insects 🐜☠️! Round-leaved sundew is a carnivorous plant that grows in acidic freshwater wetland environments, such as bogs, marshes, and lakes. They have small greeny-red round leaves covered in hairs (called trichomes) that release their sweet and sticky substance (called mucilage). Insects are attracted to this “dew” and the plant’s colourful leaves 🤩, which ultimately leads to the insects getting stuck and then engulfed by the leaf cur

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