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

An international team of researchers led by Dr. Ulrike Bauer from the University of Bristol investigated two tropical pitcher ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Previous studies hinted that bacteria living in the mucilage of other carnivorous plants including pitcher plants and ... a species found in temperate and tropical regions including Taiwan ...

While you might think it would be prudent for animals to avoid these plants where possible, some bats voluntarily clamber inside them. Woolly bats are known to roost in Nepenthes hemsleyana, a ...

The tropical pitcher plant or monkey plant, better known as periuk kera, is more than a carnivorous creeper. Among the Orang Asli community, the cupped leaves of the plant are used as a base for ...

Asia is the most mountainous continent on earth. From the tropical south to its barren centre, its highest places are home to ...

And compared with buying bottled water, using a water filter pitcher is substantially more ... chlorine and fluoride added by water treatment plants, and even heavy metals such as lead, chromium ...