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A complete botanical profile of the Venus Flytrap: a carnivorous plant with a ~100 km² wild range, a snap-trap that fires an electrical action potential in under 300 ms, and a place in the history of both botany and neuroscience. Charles Darwin called it 'one of the most wonderful plants in the world.'

A complete botanical profile of Rafflesia arnoldii: the world's largest individual flower, a holoparasite with no leaves, roots, or stems, blooming for just 5–7 days in the rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo and smelling of rotting flesh to attract carrion flies.

The Sacred Lotus can keep its seeds viable for 1,300 years, heats its own flowers, and gave engineers the blueprint for self-cleaning surfaces. A complete botanical profile of Nelumbo nucifera.