While visiting my son and family for Christmas, I couldn’t help but notice how prolific the pitchers or traps on his tropical ...

Showcase of species and hybrids of tropical pitcher plants; container gardening with ornamentals. Phillipe Chadwick is in Morrison Tennessee at Red Leaf Exotics, a nursery specializing in tropical ...

Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that the plants can't absorb from the soil. Not only does this alien-looking ...

By Shreya Dasgupta Researchers have described a new-to-science species of carnivorous plant that’s known from only three ...

Pitcher plants (Nepenthes spp.), also known as tropical pitcher plants or Asian pitcher plants, are colorful carnivorous plants that feed on insects by capturing them in cup-shaped structures that ...

Pitcher plants like Nephentes gracilis use their specialized leaves to capture insects. This food supplement allows the plants to thrive even in nutrient-poor habitats. In a recent study, a team led ...