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 ...

Pitcher plants (Nepenthes spp.), also known as tropical pitcher plants or Asian pitcher plants, are colorful carnivorous plants that feed on insects by capturing them in cup-shaped structures that ...

We know about Venus' flytrap plants, but the better-looking tropical pitcher plants have not gotten the press or the notoriety of the former. They are known botanically as Nepenthes or monkey cups, as ...

Several types of spiders make their homes within carnivorous pitcher plants found in Southeast Asia, stealing prey that wonder inside. Surprisingly, new research shows, this thievery benefits both ...

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Carnivorous plants aren’t a product of nightmares so much as they are a product of evolution. When plants growing in bogs and other wetlands couldn’t find enough nutrients in the soil around them, ...

The pitcher plants in Canada don’t just eat insects – they also feast on amphibians. A survey late last summer revealed that a fifth of the pitchers in one bog had caught at least one juvenile ...

When you gotta go you gotta go, and for small tropical mammals called tree shrews, a pitcher plant serves as a handy toilet, new video research finds. The jug-shaped plants make out just fine, too: ...