Similarly, each of your pitcher plant's pitchers will eventually turn brown and drop off naturally as they age. Widespread browning of pitchers could be due to larger issues, like a lack of ...

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.) ...

The prey are then consumed using digestive enzymes, and the plant uses the resulting nutrients to grow. In order to attract prey, these pitchers are normally set above the ground, especially when ...

In 2012 an international group of scientists spotted pitcher plants in one region of Borneo, which initially appeared to completely lack pitchers. Upon further investigation, however, the ...

Usually found growing in relatively poor soil, the plants sprout pitcher-shaped cups with pretty, frilly tops that obscure their true purpose: trapping hapless insects. Look inside the pitchers ...

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 ...

It was reported a more than a decade ago that some species of tropical pitcher plants, Nepenthes species, changed their diet from insects to animal poops. But thanks to new research, we now know ...