New species of “killer tobacco” found at Australian truck stop

Mongabay
Aug 11, 2021, 1:48 am247 pts
At a truck stop along a Western Australian highway, researchers noticed an unfamiliar wild tobacco plant. Covered in sticky hairs, the plant appeared to be a mass grave for small insects — flies, gnats, and aphids, which met an untimely death in the tobacco’s fetid liquid armor. After shepherding its seeds…

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