As Dr Martin Cheek points out, tropical pitcher plants “are unique because some species have the largest animal traps known in the plant world ... 1,500 years old. According to Dr David Goyder ...

In 2009, botanists in the Philippines discovered a new species of pitcher plant, Nepenthes attenboroughii (named for naturalist Sir David Attenborough). With stems reaching up to nearly 5 feet and ...

Plants of the genus Sarracenia are commonly known as trumpet pitchers or American pitcher plants. These plants get their name from long pitchers that produce nectar near the top rim. When insects ...

This makes it one of the largest pitcher plants known to science. Unfortunately, during two research expeditions, only 39 specimens of this plant were found, suggesting its rarity and potential ...

While the young Nepenthes rafflesiana pitcher plants of Borneo have slippery surfaces on their specialized pitcher-shaped leaves that “cause visitors to fall into the pitcher and drown in the ...

Right? Once you’ve hauled yourself up a wet mountainside in pursuit of a pitcher plant, macheted your way to that orchid, or divined the world’s largest flower in your mind’s eye ...