Scientists have uncovered how sundews, Charles Darwin's favorite plant, become more carnivorous in certain habitats.
A carnivorous plant that fascinated Charles Darwin is able to increase its number of "tentacles" when nutrients from the ...
In 1860, soon after he encountered his first carnivorous plant—the sundew Drosera—on an English heath, the author of Origin of Species wrote, "I care more about Drosera than the origin of all ...
Endangered carnivorous plants are being reintroduced to parts ... He said he cared more about the genus Drosera, which means dewy in Latin, than the origin of all the species in the world.
Researchers from Loughborough and Gloucester universities found that they alter the density of their leaf tentacles and the ...
New species of carnivorous plants found in Western Australia Thilo Krueger of Curtin University, Australia is behind the discovery of a new species. Drosera serpens ...
we have demonstrated how carnivorous plants can persist in nutrient-poor environments by responding flexibly to local conditions," said Dr Hatcher. "This adaptability might allow sundews to ...
While most often its animals that consume plants, the opposite is true in a unique group of plants classified as carnivorous. Reference to the latter often conjures up images from movies of some ...