Sarracenia pitcher plants, found in eastern North America, look like trumpet-shaped flowers. But the “flowers” are modified leaves that form a cup containing digestive enzymes and entrap insects.

Scientists have discovered a carnivorous plant that grows prey-trapping contraptions underground, feeding off subterranean creatures such as worms, larvae and beetles. The newly found species of ...

Pitcher plants have evolved independently on three different continents. But new research shows they use many of the same tools to catch and eat their prey.

Making these “complicated leaves” cost pitcher plants “a lot of metabolic resources,” says Barry Rice, an astrobiologist and botanist at Sierra College in California, who has grown more ...

Splash! Ooch! Yum! And so another unsuspecting insect victim of Nepenthes alata (N. alata), commonly known as the carnivorous pitcher plant, falls victim to the digestive fluids at the bottom of ...

Former bug-eating plants, which evolved to feed on animal droppings instead, have a more nutritious diet than their carnivorous cousins, a new study finds. When you purchase through links on our ...

First record of functional underground traps in a pitcher plant: Nepenthes pudica (Nepenthaceae), a new species from North Kalimantan, Borneo PhytoKeys , 2022; 201: 77 DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys ...