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Carnivorous plant attempts to digest candy in bizarre video

Popkin
May 21, 2025
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Gummy bears (domnitsky/shutterstock.com)

Watch a carnivorous plant devour a helpless little gummy bear in this timelapse video. The King Sundew (Drosera regia) plant in the video seems to eat a pretty decent amount of the gummy bear, but leaves the top half of it behind, looking liquified and gooey. I feel like I just watched the plant version of a slash…

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