is the largest carnivorous plant in the world. Its urn-shaped traps grow up to 41 centimetres tall with a pitcher capable of holding 3.5 litres of water. Scientists have observed vertebrates and small ...

Using rainwater, distilled water, or demineralized water on carnivorous plants like Venus flytraps, sundews, and pitcher ...

One species of tropical pitcher plant is actually named ... can survive in hot and dry environments: “The plant body is succulent (water-storing) and the plant has evolved to have spines instead ...

The pitcher plant Nepenthes x ventrata is gorgeous and popular with horticulturists, but it’s deadly for the insects that fall into the trap for which it is named. Yet the enzymes in the digestive ...