The Fly Paper Plant of South Africa (South Africa Series - Ep. 5)

This episode features what is probably one one of the most evolutionarily interesting plants to have been encountered in the Cape Floristic Region. The genus #Roridula (consisting of two species) has evolved a rather peculiar habit of obtaining its nitrogen to compensate for the nutrient-poor soil that it grows in, and it could not do so without the help of its mutualist insect in the genus #Pameridia.

This episode features a number of rare and locally endemic plants from the Fynbos Region of South Africa, including some rather incredible members of the lineage of Asteraceae known as the "paper daisies", and we also take a look at just what is going on with the flower morphology in the hubcap-sized flowers of the King Protea, Protea cynaroides.

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