Mouse carnivore

A species of carnivorous plants recently found by ecologist Charles Clarke (James Cook University) in a quagmire, near the Jardine River National Park, Cape York, Queensland, Australia.

There have long been a lot of botanists coming to study in Cape York. This species grows a lot here, but until now they have been noticed and studied. This is a Nepenthes species called ' tenax ' (Latin for ' sticking '). Nepe

nthes tenax is about 1 meter tall, bait traps are about 15 cm high, which is quite rare for carnivorous plants.

The rest of the small mice were found inside the " bait trap ", which proved that Nepenthes tenax did not like to eat ordinary insects. Here, Nepenthes tenax lives with two other hybrid Nepenthes species, Nepenthes mirabilis and Nepenthes rowanae.

This plant seems to have been described very carefully since 1890 by the famous botanist Frank Jardine when he went to collect plant samples, but unfortunately he dropped the specimen on the way back and from there. Now no one has discovered that this plant knows . rats.