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

The pitcher plant Nepenthes x ventrata is gorgeous and popular with horticulturists, but it’s deadly for the insects that fall into the trap for which it is named. Yet the enzymes in the digestive ...

Long stalks anchor the plant to the ground. A lack of nitrogen in the soil where they grow means that these carnivorous plants use their hollow, jug-shaped pitchers to obtain the nutrient from ...