Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that ...

Simply speaking, a carnivorous plant is one that eats insects as part of its regular diet. All plants take in carbon dioxide and use sunlight to convert it to food to help them grow (that’s ...

Eating animals, in other words, lets carnivorous plants do what all plants do: grow by grabbing energy directly from the sun. Alas, they do a lousy job of it. Carnivorous plants turn out to be ...

Sundews digest their food using enzymes and absorb the nutrients to grow in nutrient-poor soil. Bladderworts are aquatic carnivorous plants that use suction to trap their prey. They have tiny ...

While most of our carnivorous plants live behind the scenes in Kew's Tropical Nursery, you can still discover the magic of flesh-eating plants dotted around the Gardens. You’ll find some of these ...

Venus flytraps are fascinating carniverous plants native to the Carolinas. These fast moving plants are excellent at catching ...

(Darwin called it “carnivorous syndrome ... all uniquely adapted to their environments. Tropical pitcher plants, so called because of their hanging vase-shaped leaves, grow in places with ...