Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that ...

Plant pitcher plants in a well-drained potting medium, but avoid using standard houseplant soil mixes on carnivorous plants. A combination of equal parts long-fibered sphagnum moss and perlite ...

Pitcher plants use yet another strategy ... Bogs are also flooded with sunshine, so even an inefficient carnivorous plant can carry out enough photosynthesis to survive. "They're stuck, and ...

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

Carnivorous plants are interesting members of the plant ... It’s like a nature-made mousetrap, but for bugs. The pitcher plant is like a beautiful but deadly vase. Its leaves form deep, tube ...

Not all predators are animals. Carnivorous plants, such as the Venus fly trap and the pitcher plant, consume insects. Pitcher plants catch their prey in a pool of water containing digestive ...

A newly described species of pitcher plant, one of the largest and ... Nepenthes is a genus of carnivorous pitcher plants, found throughout the tropics of South-East Asia and in parts of the ...

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 ...

The findings support long-standing ecological models, including the cost-benefit model for plant carnivory. This model predicts that plants invest more in carnivorous traits, such as prey capture ...

Plant collectors have searched for the hidden wonders of the plant world for centuries. Yet plants that are new to science are still being described, at a rate of about 2,000 a year. Scientists at ...