Wild Life shared a very interesting fact about the carnivorous pitcher plant and how it is dangerous to some but gently opens its lid to provide sweet nectar to the tiny tree shrew. It also keeps ...

Purple blossoms appear atop a long stalk to help keep pollinators from their carnivorous leaves. Found only near the summit of Mount Victoria on the island of Palawan in the Philippines, ...

Breathing World of Borneo’s Carnivorous Pitcher Plants The Living, Breathing World of Borneo’s Carnivorous Pitcher Plants ...

The highly adaptable pitcher plant is facing threats in Sabah, with seven species listed as threatened on the International ...

Carnivorous plants are some of the most fascinating species in nature. Plants like Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, sundews, and others get their nutrients by catching flying insects with sticky ...

Researchers are on the verge of a breakthrough in antibacterial products by identifying enzymes in the carnivorous pitcher plants that prevent bacterial and fungal infections. Japanese researchers ...

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It is also home to a number of other species of carnivorous plants, less famous and more widespread but no less bizarre. You can find pitcher plants with leaves like champagne flutes, into which ...

An ant species that lives on a carnivorous pitcher plant keeps nutrient thieves from escaping by eating them. Amid cuts to federal funding, US universities tighten budgets, forcing PhD students and ...

“We mostly think about plant signaling as targeting sight and smell, but here these plants are not so much giving a ‘shout out’ but a ‘shout back’ to the bats to come on over,” Rohan Clarke, an ...

Sophie creates a beautiful carnivorous plant bog in a small pot, to bring the wonder of the wetlands to her doorstep.

HABIT Prostrate or climbing carnivorous plants with leaf extensions that form a pitcher-shaped cup filled with viscous liquid that traps and drowns insects. FEATURES The unusual, lidded pitchers ...