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Published online 26 September 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020923-7

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Vegetal vampires stalk South America

If you go down to the woods today beware of thieving flowers.

Lurking in the woodlands of South America, Martin I. Bidartondo from the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues have discovered a new group of vegetal vampires.

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