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

Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that ...

Orangutan pitcher plant (Nepenthes pongoides) just discovered in Sabah, on the tropical island of ... [+] Borneo. (Credit: Alastair Robinson.) An international team of botanists report they have ...

Carnivorous plants are interesting members of the plant world that have evolved to trap and digest animals, mostly insects, to survive. These plants thrive in places where the soil is poor in ...

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 ...

A newly described species of pitcher plant, one of the largest and furriest ever found, has been identified on a wild mountain in Borneo, Malaysia. The underside of the leaves of Nepenthes ...

Here’s how. Plants can talk. Yes, really. Here’s how. Horrific summer travels? These tales are worse. Horrific summer travels? These tales are worse. New type of carnivorous plant found in ...

Their list of the top new plants includes carnivorous pitcher plants, exotic orchids and climbers with untapped medicinal powers. Prof Aiah Lebbie discovered an unusual plant clinging to rocks ...

Long stalks anchor the plant to the ground. A lack of nitrogen in the soil where they grow means that these carnivorous plants use their hollow, jug-shaped pitchers to obtain the nutrient from ...

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 ...

While most often its animals that consume plants, the opposite is true in a unique group of plants classified as carnivorous. Reference to the latter often conjures up images from movies of some ...