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A Curiosity Grows in Carolina: The Carnivorous Plant That Consumed the 18th Century
May 16 @ 11:00 am
Free
On April 2, 1759 a letter was penned that would rock the botanical world: the first documented description of the Venus flytrap. Tales of this tiny green predator from the pine savannahs of Southeastern North Carolina would sweep throughout Europe. Join Shannon Walker, curator of programming and education at the North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport, to learn about this little plant that sparked a craze that would involve a royal governor, the who’s who of 18th-century scientists, and even piracy on the high seas.
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