venomous plants and their impact (IMAGE)

Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center

venomous plants and their impact

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Representative venom delivery systems in plants, including (A) co-habiting ants that numerous ant-plants provide a home and food for; (B) haustria of parasitic plants that attack other plants; (C) stinging trichomes of stinging plants; and (D) raphides that penetrate the oral membranes of animals that browse on plants. Artwork by Loma Linda University student M. Benjamin Streit. 

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Loma Linda University

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