I understand their normal conditions are in poor soil, which is why the flytrap, but why would good soil outright kill them instead of them ignoring it or maybe just doing slightly better?
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The same reason you would die from too much vitamin A ingestion. They evolved in poor nutrient soil in Virginia marshlands and evolved to supplement this w catching insects. If you get too much of a good thing it is as bad as a lack of it. All life is on a J or U shaped curve and needs to hit whatever niche it evolved to hit or deleterious things happen to the organism.
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