Their compact size and insect-eating abilities make butterworts a great addition to any carnivorous plant collection!

Using distilled or harvested rainwater on these plants is best. While trumpet pitcher plants, mentioned above, are native to North America, the tropical varieties (Nepenthes) hail mostly from ...

As Dr Martin Cheek points out, tropical pitcher plants “are unique because some species have the largest animal traps known in the plant world, and attract, trap and digest, not just large ...

Both kinds of pitcher plants—the tropical genus Nepenthes and the North American Sarracenia—grow deep pitcher-shaped leaves and employ the same strategy for capturing prey. Yet they evolved ...

Let’s explore five of these incredible plant varieties that reflect just how fascinating the natural world can be! Nepenthes rajah is an astonishing tropical pitcher plant belonging to Sumatra ...

As soon as they land on it, the insects find themselves stuck to the plant. The tentacles then close around the insects and digestive enzymes begin their work - first by breaking down the prey and ...

Among the Orang Asli community, the cupped leaves of the plant are used as a base for cooking rice. Instead of harvesting ...

Insects stuck in sundew plants’ sticky secretions suffocate and die before being subjected to a medley of digestive enzymes.

Another member of the pitcher plant family ... of the state of cloud forests through its lush displays of plant life native to tropical highlands up to 2,000-metres above sea level, and ...

Having won gold medals in 2006 and 2007, Borneo Exotics returned this year with a larger more elaborate exhibit of ‘Tropical pitcher plants in a natural setting’. The gold medal was awarded by a ...