Carnivero Nursery (www.carnivero.com) is located just outside of Austin Texas. In this video we pay them a visit and discuss the evolution of carnivory and how it's related to geology, how elevation affects temperature in the tropics, lighting, humidity and evaporative cooling, and the great diversity among all the plants that have independently evolved carnivory to compensate for lownitrogen soils.


Thanks to Drew, Louie, Karina and everyone else who helped out production of this video. Thanks to Javier Gonzalez for assistance in production.

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