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The evolution of plants Part 2

Sarracenia

Trumpet pitcher plants

was named after Dr Michael Sarrazin, a surgeon and naturalist who lived in the 17th century. He was one of the first scientists to document and catalogue ecosystems in New France – an area that reached from the Gulf of Mexico all the way to the coast of what is now

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