Are your tomatoes trying to eat you? No, but there's some evidence it may be a proto- or para-carnivore! Let's talk about carnivorous plant and how their more passive cousins, the protocarnivores, do what they do! #carnivorousplant
Buying Organic Fertilizer tells you all you gotta know. The ingredients are basically throwing animal parts through a wood chipper. If it's the good stuff you'll have lobster shells and guano mixed into the feather, blood, and bone meal.
"hemlock is a carnivorous plant because you die when you eat it, you drop to the floor and the plant eat you" "Daisy is carnivorous because an insect might die due to old age when foraging and drop to the floor, being eaten by the plant" "An oak is a carnivorous plant because someone could fell asleep and die while sleeping under it's shadow, drop to the floor and be eaten"
True, it's a bit of a stretch considering that all nutrients will eventually get recycled + the whole active/passive predation aspect because we're not really saying that plants plan their behaviour in the same way that predatory animals plan their behaviour
not exactly imo, i think the "tomatoes have evolved traits that actively endanger insects around them" changes it a bit, but i do still think it's kind of a stretch
