If you're looking for a unique new houseplant or a conversation piece for your indoor garden, you might want to consider pitcher plants. These carnivorous beauties stand out among the rest of your ...

Not having luck growing carnivorous plants at home? Jacob Soule talks carnivorous plant soil requirements, pitcher plant varieties, sundew plant care, and more. In this episode of Mother Earth News ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Deep in the forests of Malaysian Borneo lurks a most peculiar ...

As houseplants, carnivorous pitchers are guaranteed to become the subject of conversation at every party. These ferocious beauties are easily identified by modified leaves that, while they bear a ...

I bought this plant past summer. It is healthy and growing nicely; note new light green growth toward light. However, no new traps grew. You can notice the stringy end of leaves but no growth. The ...

Pitcher-plants of the genus Nepenthes are tropical carnivorous plants that trap and digest insects. Some of Borneo’s pitcher plants inhabit a broad altitudinal range in its mountainous forests, while ...

Old World pitcher plants (Nepenthes spp., Nepenthaceae) trap and digest invertebrate prey to derive nutrients, primarily nitrogen (N). In the majority of lowland Nepenthes species studied to date, ...

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Carnivorous plants acquire substantial amounts of nitrogen from insects. The tropical carnivorous plant Nepenthes produces trapping organs called pitchers at the tips of tendrils elongated from leaf ...