Carnivorous plants such as Nepenthes acquire the ability to reproduce even in soils lacking nutrients such as nitrogen by preying on insects. In addition, new research has shown that a type of ...

Some species that grow where insects are scarce encourage animals to poo in their pitchers Nepenthes carnivorous plants look like toilets, trapping insects and other small creatures in a bowl-shaped ...

A carnivorous pitcher plant (Nepenthes lowii) growing amongst ridge-top vegetation on Mount Murud, Sarawak. (Credit: Jeremiah Harris / CC BY-SA 3.0) It was reported a more than a decade ago that some ...

Pitcher-plants of the genus Nepenthes are tropical carnivorous plants that trap and digest insects. Some of Borneo’s pitcher plants inhabit a broad altitudinal range in its mountainous forests, while ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Nepenthes is a type of carnivore plants originated from Indonesia. Some species of Nephentes are currently endangered and has a limited distribution. The Indonesian Institute ...

Scientists at the Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI) here have developed three new hybrids of the Pitcher plant or Monkey cup ( Nepenthes), a carnivorous plant ...

An exotic plant species previously unknown to science has been discovered growing in a hothouse in London’s famous Kew Gardens. Botanists discovered the carnivorous pitcher plant – now named Nepenthes ...

Possessing more than two complete sets of chromosomes can be a hindrance to long-term survival of a plant lineage, yet scientists are also finding evidence it’s likely behind some evolutionary ...

Botanists are in a race against time to save some of the world's most spectacular carnivorous plants from extinction. Over the past year a dozen previously unknown species of pitcher plants, at least ...

The new giant pitcher plant species (left) and a feature on this new species (right). KOTA KINABALU: A type of giant hairy pitcher plant which was first photographed in 2004, has officially been named ...

Oh, to be a pitcher plant. Unlike most of the animal kingdom, who run around chasing money, antelopes, Twitter mentions and whatnot, pitcher plants just sit there and let it all come to them. It's ...