You Can Find the Carnivorous Plant Charles Darwin Was Obsessed With in a Texas Park

I’d been bent at the hip like a cartoon detective, snooping around the trail’s edges, for over an hour. Covered in streaks of my own blood, courtesy of the recently satiated mosquitoes I swatted off my arms, legs, and neck, I was attempting to track down the carnivorous sundew plant. Despite assurances from multiple amicable park rangers that I would have “no problem” finding it on the Big Thicket National Preserve’s promisingly named Sundew Trail, I found it to be more of a sun-don’t. Fortunately, experiencing sundews is worth the effort. All you need, I eventually learned, is an eagle eye.The appeal of the sundew is obvious. It looks like something from science fiction, almost alienesque. Its leaves resemble an upside down octopus’s arms facing…

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