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Most of the plants on Yanth are actively carnivorous, and feed primarily on the planet's insectoid fauna. The world's diversity of carnivorous plants includes trees that use tendrils to ensnare prey and pull it into their maws, bushes that utilize poisonous barbs to stun and subdue prey that they digest with microbes that corrode the carapaces of their insect prey, and vines that grow in latticeworks above rivers and dangle nets to grab animals that come to the water to drink.{{Fn|1}}
Many of Yanth's native plants have valuable medical properties. The roots of the Absolla tree, a carnivorous plant that grows mainly in northern areas of the planet's main continent, can be ground into a past paste that helps to rapidly regenerate flesh. Windreth vines are bright purple plants that grow in geometric patterns across the cliff faces of Windreth Falls, and contain fluids that can be used to create an elixir that mends ruined flesh. The Hypoletta bush, which grows near toxic lakes on the southern continent, produces seeds that, if ground and mixed with salt water, release a potent anesthetic gas. Dusk leaf is a purple weed that, if dried and ground, can be smoked or injected to create an intensely pleasurable and addictive sensory effect.{{Fn|1}}
The insects of Yanth, in turn, feed off of its plants, creating a constant cycle of competition where neither side can establish itself as dominant for long before the other develops new traits to attack it. The planet's insects range in size from ones smaller than a [[bolter]] shell to species much larger than a [[Chimera]] [[tank]]; many of these reach sizes that are significantly in excess of what would be expected from its environmental conditions, such as its oxygen levels. In addition to terrestrial and flying species, many insects have adapted to aquatic life, either swimming in deep waters or moving along their surfaces.{{Fn|1}}
