Carnivorous plants have developed a terrific array of weird and wonderful adaptations that help them flourish in nutrient-poor environments. Enter the world of predatory plants (if you dare) and ...

Pitcher plants are a group of carnivorous plants that catch insects in their namesake columnar traps. There is a wide variety ...

"We used the secretion of the pitcher plant and treated it with silver nitrate, which helped us produce these nanoparticles. Our team also found that these biosynthesised silver nanoparticles ...

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 ...