To turn your mild-leafed menagerie into the ultimate selfie background, what you need is a Nepenthes. Nepenthes (pronounced neh-PEN-theeze) is a genus of pitcher plants typically found in ...

The Cambodian government is urging sexed-up citizens to stop playing with phallic-shaped flowers known as Nepenthes holdenii — saying the erotic-looking plants are at risk of extinction.

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.) ...

Nepenthes pudica is what scientists call a pitcher plant—it has modified leaves known as pitfall traps or pitchers, where it captures its prey. In a strategy so far unknown from any other ...

Scientists sequenced the genome of the East Asian pitcher plant, Nepenthes gracilis, a species of carnivorous plant related to Venus flytraps, as well as sundews, beets and spinach. Possessing ...