The Carnivorous Plant FAQ: human digestion:
"Q:Can Venus Flytraps digest human flesh?
A: OK, I admit it. This is not a frequently asked question. But it is one that I am inspired to answer. But let me warn you, this is GROSS! You may wish to zip right on to the next FAQ entry to just avoid polluting your brain with the information below. By the way, my lovely wife is going to be absolutely mortified when I tell her I put this information on the web. She was completely horrified that I actually did these experiments...........
.........I thought about my Venus Flytraps. (You can start squirming now.) Could they digest diseased human flesh? If so, this would mean that if a person were trapped by an adequately large (giant, special-effects monster movie size) Venus Flytrap, he or she could be digested. I figured this would be unlikely because surely the skin would be able to resist the puny enzymes from the plant. But here was a chance to prove it."
"Q:Can Venus Flytraps digest human flesh?
A: OK, I admit it. This is not a frequently asked question. But it is one that I am inspired to answer. But let me warn you, this is GROSS! You may wish to zip right on to the next FAQ entry to just avoid polluting your brain with the information below. By the way, my lovely wife is going to be absolutely mortified when I tell her I put this information on the web. She was completely horrified that I actually did these experiments...........
.........I thought about my Venus Flytraps. (You can start squirming now.) Could they digest diseased human flesh? If so, this would mean that if a person were trapped by an adequately large (giant, special-effects monster movie size) Venus Flytrap, he or she could be digested. I figured this would be unlikely because surely the skin would be able to resist the puny enzymes from the plant. But here was a chance to prove it."
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