Carnivorous plants are interesting members of the plant world that have evolved to trap and digest animals, mostly insects, ...

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

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 ...

Discover the astonishing world of plants that mimic animal behavior. From carnivorous sundews and Venus flytraps trapping insects to pitcher plants luring prey with deceptive scents, these ...

inside the plant’s pitchers — creatures that most other pitcher plants are too small to trap. Figure 3. Indumentum of Nepenthes pongoides. (a) Emerging foliage and phyllode bases densely covered ...

Its dew-covered tentacles trap and digest small insects, using them as food for growth.

Giant pitchers are plants characterized by large, distinctive bell-shaped upper and lower pitchers and narrow, upright lids. The purpose of the pitcher is to capture both rainfall and insects.

The study, published today as a Version of Record after previously appearing as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife, is described by the editors as highlighting an important discovery: a bacterial pathogen's ...