Splash! Ooch! Yum! And so another unsuspecting insect victim of Nepenthes alata (N. alata), commonly known as the carnivorous pitcher plant, falls victim to the digestive fluids at the bottom of ...

Figure 2: Surface features of the peristome in the pitchers of N. alata. The overall result is continuous and directional water transport, as illustrated in Fig. 3c: when a given microcavity fills ...

To the average plant-eating human, the thought of a plant ... related to starfruit), Nepenthes alata (an Asian pitcher plant related to buckweat) and Sarracenia purpurea (an American pitcher ...