[英语课]

Carnivorous Tree--Dien Bo

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     There are 500 kinds of trees that can eat animals in the world, but the vast majority can only eat small insects. Dien Bo, grew up in the Indonesian island of Java, is even able to "eat" man. It is said that its juice can erode a person's body within a very short time. Dien Bo is called as "the most ferocious plants". It is 89 meters high with a lot of long branches, straight down to the ground. Some look like broken wires shaking in  the wind , if someone accidentally touches them, all the branches of the tree  will stretch over in the same direction like claws wildly, to enclose the person, and then wrapp more tightly, so that people can not run off. The branches will soon secrete a very sticky glue juice, that is able to digest the captured food. The animal is sticky to this liquid and then slowly be "digested" as a wonderful meal of the tree. After this wonderful meal, Dien bo  expands flowing again, ready to capture the next victims.

    The natives  in Java island know the "temper" of Dien Bo, so they feed it fish first, when it's fed, then hasten to collect the sap, it is a valuable raw material for pharmaceutical.

[ring2012]

Yeah, I ever heard of this kind of tree.

[MSL]

 An interesting information.