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Botanists have discovered a
, carnivorous plant. It is the
false asphodel. This is a white flower that is relatively
along the coastline of the Pacific Northwest in the USA and on Canada's western
. It was actually first discovered in 1879, but
back then did not realise the innocuous-looking flower was actually a meat
. Researchers have recently determined that
, tiny hairs along the bloom's
produce a digestive enzyme that
carnivorous plants use to ensnare and eat insects. Professor Sean Graham, a botanist with the University of British Columbia, told the NPR news agency: "We had no
it was carnivorous."