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Giant 'meat-eating' plant found

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  1. toni

    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    Way too cool :-D . The blue mushrooms were like something out of a cartoon.
     
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    WOW! those mushrooms look amazing! OK what i really want to know is, Asuming that a plant never sucumbs to desease or an external means of death.Would then the plant effectivly keep growing and growing forever?
     
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    That is so cool, and the blue color on the Fungi is gorgeous!!
     
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    I love the name of it. Nepenthes attenboroughii. :D
     
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