Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that ...

Soil Plant pitcher plants in a well-drained potting medium, but avoid using standard houseplant soil mixes on carnivorous plants. A combination of equal parts long-fibered sphagnum moss and ...

Pitcher plants are a group of carnivorous plants that catch insects in their namesake columnar traps. There is a wide variety ...

Cultivating a thriving collection of nepenthes, or pitcher plants, can be a gratifying pursuit for plant enthusiasts. These ...

Carnivorous plants are interesting members of the plant world that have evolved to trap and digest animals, mostly insects, to survive. These plants thrive in places where the soil is poor in ...

It is also home to a number of other species of carnivorous plants, less famous and more widespread but no less bizarre. You can find pitcher plants with leaves like champagne flutes, into which ...

Their list of the top new plants includes carnivorous pitcher plants, exotic orchids and climbers with untapped medicinal powers. Prof Aiah Lebbie discovered an unusual plant clinging to rocks ...

“But the colour is almost the same as orangutan fur,” Dr Robinson added, before pointing out that the team agreed to christen these plants as the orangutan pitcher plant whilst still on the ...

“But the colour is almost the same as orangutan fur.” He is proposing that the plants have the common name of orangutan pitcher plants. Robinson and his colleagues found just 39 plants over ...