A type of giant hairy pitcher plant which was first photographed in 2004, has officially been named after it was recognised ...

Researchers from the Sabah Forestry Department’s Forest Research Centre (FRC) have collaborated with Australian colleagues to ...

Pitcher plants use yet another strategy ... The North Carolina Department of Agriculture has been dabbing wild Venus flytraps with harmless dye that's normally invisible but glows in UV light ...

The carnivorous Aldrovanda vesiculosa, also known as the waterwheel plant, snaps its "trap" shut ten times faster than the flytrap. As it is quite rare in the wild, the plant's mechanism has not ...

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 ...

But there’s much more to the carnivorous plant world. Exotic plant expert David Durie showed the Beechgrove team around his collection. “A carnivorous plant is essentially any plant which is ...