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.

I went with the latter last week, during my second trip to Nepenthes New York. She was small, taut, focused, with hair pulled up in a manner that screamed efficiency. Her questions were targeted ...

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 bicalcarata (fanged pitcher plant) in its natural habitat: Dipterocrap swamp forest in the lowlands of Brunei. I am fascinated by the carnivorous Asian pitcher plant, and in 2013 I spent ...

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 ...