You might be old enough to remember when a carnivorous plant called a Venus Fly-trap became an almost overnight fad. This fascinating species - what Charles Darwin, back in 1875, called 'one of the most wonderful in the world', is native to just North Carolina and can catch and digest prey as large as a frog.
Related to the Venus Flytrap, but with a more passive method of catching insects, is the Sundew. There are around 40 species of Sundew native to Australia out of 194 world-wide.
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