Soil Plant pitcher plants in a well-drained potting medium, but avoid using standard houseplant soil mixes on carnivorous plants. A combination of equal parts long-fibered sphagnum moss and ...

Orangutan pitcher plant (Nepenthes pongoides) just discovered in Sabah, on the tropical island of ... [+] Borneo. (Credit: Alastair Robinson.) An international team of botanists report they have ...

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 ...

A newly described species of pitcher plant, one of the largest and furriest ever found, has been identified on a wild mountain in Borneo, Malaysia. The underside of the leaves of Nepenthes ...

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 ...

Here’s how. Plants can talk. Yes, really. Here’s how. Horrific summer travels? These tales are worse. Horrific summer travels? These tales are worse. New type of carnivorous plant found in ...

Carnivorous plants are interesting members of the plant world that have evolved to trap and digest animals, mostly insects, to survive. These plants thrive in places where the soil is poor in ...

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 ...