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,~~††¤§### † BLOOD CLOVER † ###§¤††~~,
,~~††¤§### # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # ###§¤††~~,
,,,,,,,~†§ §†~,,,,,,,
,,,,,~†††§ THE MOSS COMMONLY KNOWN AS "BLOOD §†††~,,,,,
,,,,~††§§§ CLOVER" IS A CARNIVOROUS PLANT NATIVE §§§††~,,,,
,,,,~†††§# TO NORTHERN EURASIA. DESPITE ITS NAME, #§†††~,,,,
,~~††¤§### IT'S ACTUALLY A KIND OF MOSS. ###§¤††~~,
,~~††¤§### ###§¤††~~,
,~~††¤§### # ~~~~ # ###§¤††~~,
,,,,,,~††§ §††~,,,,,,
,~~††¤§### BLOOD CLOVER IS IN ITS DORMANT STATE ###§¤††~~,
,~~††¤§### INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM REGULAR CLOVER. ###§¤††~~,
,~~††¤#### WHEN DISTURBED, IT PRODUCES A THICK ####¤††~~,
,~~††¤§### STICKY SAP THAT WILL ENSNARE ANIMALS ###§¤††~~,
,~~††¤§### THAT ARE TOO WEAK TO MOVE AWAY (FROGS, ###§¤††~~,
,,,,,,,~†§ MICE, INSECTS) AND SLOWLY MELT THEM. §†~,,,,,,,
,~~††¤§### THE PLANT THEN FEEDS OFF OF THE ###§¤††~~,
,~~~~†††§# NUTRIENTS RELEASED. DURING FEEDING THE #§†††~~~~,
,~~~~†¤¤¤§ LEAVES WILL TAKE ON A REDDISH TINT, §¤¤¤†~~~~,
,~~††¤§### FROM WHICH THE PLANT GET ITS COMMON ###§¤††~~,
,,,,~~~†¤# NAME. , , , , #¤†~~~,,,,
,~~††¤§### ###§¤††~~,
,,,~~††¤§# YOU CAN SOMETIMES SPOT BLEEDING OR #§¤††~~,,,
,~~††¤§### SCARS ALONG THE LEGS OF BIGGER ANIMALS ###§¤††~~,
,,,,,~~†¤§ WHO'S LINGERED IN THE MOSS FOR SOME §¤†~~,,,,,
,~~††††¤¤# TIME. , , , , #¤¤††††~~,
,~~††¤§### ###§¤††~~,
,,,,,~†††§ # ~~~~ # §†††~,,,,,
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,~~††¤§### THE SAP HAS BEEN USED FOR TATTOOS. IT ###§¤††~~,
~~††¤§#### IS REPORTEDLY FAINT BUT PLEASANT TO THE ####§¤††~~
,~~††¤§### TASTE, AND CAN OF COURSE ONLY BE ###§¤††~~,
,,,~~††¤§# CONSUMED IN SMALL QUANTITIES. #§¤††~~,,,
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