Cultivating a thriving collection of nepenthes, or pitcher plants, can be a gratifying pursuit for plant enthusiasts. These ...

Discovered in low-lying rocky mountains in central Sabah, the species was named for the orangutan, because its hair resembles ...

KOTA KINABALU: A type of giant hairy pitcher plant which was first photographed in 2004, has officially been named after it was recognised as a new species and classified as Critically Endangered.

Named after the Orangutan whose scientific term is Pongo, this plant - Nepenthes pongoides, found in the ultramafic mountains in central Sabah, has a striking resemblance to the great ape’s long ...

One species of tropical pitcher plant is actually named after Sir David Attenborough - the Nepenthes attenboroughii. Sometimes referred to as a living fossil, Welwitschia mirabilis is known to ...

“It was amazing,” he said. Dr Alastair Robinson in a jungle in Sabah, Malaysia, with the newly identified tropical pitcher plant Nepenthes pongoides. Robinson, who as a boy was a fan of the ...

There are more than 150 species of pitcher plant in the world. This new discovery, Nepenthes biak, only grows on the small island of Biak, off the north coast of Indonesian New Guinea. Martin ...

For that reason, they named the new species Nepenthes pongoides. They also explained that it was very large. Upon return to their lab, subsequent research showed the plant to be the largest ...

The Nepenthes rajah, the largest carnivorous pitcher plant in the world endemic to Mount Kinabalu, grows in the Cloud Forest conservatory. Its large vase-like traps can grow up to 41 cm high and ...

And these plants are especially impressive on Mount Kinabalu, with some species producing ‘pitchers the size of house cats.’ The Nepenthes pitcher plants of Mount Kinabalu, Borneo.