Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pitcher plants can be grown outdoors year-round in tropical climates or indoors as houseplants in cooler climates. They grow best ...

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 ...

An international team of researchers led by Dr. Ulrike Bauer from the University of Bristol investigated two tropical pitcher plant species separated by 4,000 km of open ocean: The Slender Pitcher ...

Carnivorous plants can be tricky to grow, but who doesn't love a good conversation piece? "We've seen what we call a slow-motion explosion," said Damon Collingsworth, co-owner of Sonoma County-based ...

The Mid-Atlantic Carnivorous Plant Society (MACPS) will present its first-ever Plant Show on Saturday, Oct. 11, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Haverford College. Tickets are $5 and on sale now. The one-day ...

Insect-eating pitcher plants temporarily 'switch off' their traps in order to lure more prey into danger, new research has found. "The plant's key trapping surface is extremely slippery when wet but ...

Adam Cross receives funding from the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Mine Site Restoration (project number ICI150100041).

Women have been picking these rare phallic-looking plants to take fun selfies with in such numbers that it risks dying out, according to Cambodian officials. Nepenthes holdenii, a carnivorous tropical ...