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 ...

Carnivorous plants consume other living creatures for their food. Learn facts about growing Venus flytraps, pitcher plants ...

This may be mutualism, with the gecko's presence keeping predators of planthoppers away, but scientists aren't sure yet. Pitcher plants are carnivores that use nectar at the rim of their tube-like ...

Their list of the top new plants includes carnivorous pitcher plants, exotic orchids and climbers with untapped medicinal powers. Prof Aiah Lebbie discovered an unusual plant clinging to rocks ...

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 animals instead. As Dr Martin Cheek points out ...

It is also home to a number of other species of carnivorous plants, less famous and more widespread but no less bizarre. You can find pitcher plants with leaves like champagne flutes, into which ...