(Darwin called it “carnivorous syndrome.”) But while the appetites of most flesh-eating plants, such as Venus flytraps, lean mainly toward small insects, tropical pitcher plants have much more ...

Pitcher plants are a group of carnivorous plants that catch insects in their namesake columnar traps. There is a wide variety ...

RBG Kew Carnivorous pitcher plant from New Guinea It is threatened by tourism when ships stop at the island. "It's known that the plant has been hunted to be dug up from the wild for sale to ...