While visiting my son and family for Christmas, I couldn’t help but notice how prolific the pitchers or traps on his tropical ...

Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that the plants can't absorb from the soil. Not only does this alien-looking ...

Here we see the pitcher plant Nepenthes macrophylla with animal droppings stuck on the side of its tubular trap. A group of former carnivorous plants have given up catching creepy crawlies and instead ...

Not having luck growing carnivorous plants at home? Jacob Soule talks carnivorous plant soil requirements, pitcher plant varieties, sundew plant care, and more. In this episode of Mother Earth News ...

By Shreya Dasgupta Researchers have described a new-to-science species of carnivorous plant that’s known from only three ...

I bought this plant past summer. It is healthy and growing nicely; note new light green growth toward light. However, no new traps grew. You can notice the stringy end of leaves but no growth. The ...

Philippine scientists have confirmed a new pitcher plant species found only on Palawan’s limestone cliffs. But it's already ...

Carnivorous plants can be tricky to grow, but who doesn't love a good conversation piece? "We've seen what we call a slow-motion explosion," said Damon Collingsworth, co-owner of Sonoma County-based ...

Women have been picking these rare phallic-looking plants to take fun selfies with in such numbers that it risks dying out, according to Cambodian officials. Nepenthes holdenii, a carnivorous tropical ...