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Piped aboard
The Dutchman’s-pipe plant has flowers that
look just like a pipe. They attract flies with
their sickly smell. The flies can only escape
when stiff hairs inside the flower wither.

Spadix
A living trap
Imagine being Flies tumble from the
caught in a trap, spadix, or hood, into a
dusted with pollen, lower chamber, which
and then released. contains tiny flowers.
That is what happens
to tiny flies that visit the The club-shaped spadix
lords-and-ladies plant. gives off a scent that
attracts tiny flies.
The hood has
a slippery lining.

Lower
chamber

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