Scientists have discovered a carnivorous plant that grows prey-trapping contraptions underground, feeding off subterranean creatures such as worms, larvae and beetles. The newly found species of ...

Sarracenia pitcher plants, found in eastern North America, look like trumpet-shaped flowers. But the “flowers” are modified leaves that form a cup containing digestive enzymes and entrap insects.

This Indonesian pitcher plant is recognizable by its white ring, which specifically attracts termites. As the herbivorous insects gather to munch on the tiny pale hairs, some inevitably fall into ...

Making these “complicated leaves” cost pitcher plants “a lot of metabolic resources,” says Barry Rice, an astrobiologist and botanist at Sierra College in California, who has grown more ...

First record of functional underground traps in a pitcher plant: Nepenthes pudica (Nepenthaceae), a new species from North Kalimantan, Borneo PhytoKeys , 2022; 201: 77 DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys ...

“Plant carnivory is something of a hunt for fertilizer,” Albert says. In a 1992 study, Albert and colleagues discovered that the Asian, Australian and American pitcher plants possess similar features ...

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 ...

A team of botanists at Malaysia's Sabah Forestry Department's Forest Research Centre, working with a pair of colleagues from Australia, has identified a new species of giant pitcher plant growing ...