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Close-up of corn plants in a field with green leaves and ears of corn showing reddish-brown silk during the maturation stage.

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Corn teosinte Reid’s Yellow Dent Opaque-2 Floury-2 sweet corn Balsas teosinte flour corn flint corn dent corn bluestem oil grass silvergrass plume grass

Venus's-flytrap. Venus's-flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) one of the best known of the meat-eating plants. Carnivorous plant, Venus flytrap, Venus fly trap

Plants: From Cute to Carnivorous