This plant employs sticky mucilage on the leaf surface to secure its prey. Purple blossoms appear atop a long stalk to help keep pollinators from their carnivorous leaves. Found only near the summit ...

this is actually what the pitcher plant wants. Sir David Attenborough also looked at this amazing natural phenomenon in 2010.

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 ...