“They will contort themselves around their prey.” ↑ Narrow-lidded pitcher plant (Nepenthes ampullaria) These stubby pitcher plants, which range across the Pacific tropics, have two ways of ...

Like other pitcher plants, Nepenthes pudica has modified leaves, known as pitfall traps or pitchers, that its prey fall into before being consumed. (One species is so large it can trap rats.) ...

It was reported a more than a decade ago that some species of tropical pitcher plants, Nepenthes species, changed their diet from insects to animal poops. But thanks to new research, we now know ...

The fanged pitcher plant (Nepenthes biclacarata) and the carpender ant (Camponotes schmitzi) have a mutualistic relationship: while the plant provides a home to a small colony of about 30 ants ...

Found only near the summit of Mount Victoria on the island of Palawan in the Philippines, Attenborough's pitcher plant (Nepenthes attenboroughii) is critically endangered. One of the largest of all ...

Nepenthes are some of the most recognizable carnivorous plants on the planet, capturing and digesting organic material in their modified leaves to acquire nitrogen and valuable nutrients that are ...

The plants have now been classified as a unique species of pitcher plant, named Nepenthes pudica – the latter part of the moniker is derived from the latin word pudicus, which means "bashful ...

The first-ever plant to develop underground pitfall traps has been discovered in Indonesia. While Nepenthes pudica is currently the only pitcher plant that feeds on subterranean prey, more may be ...