Scientists sequenced the genome of the East Asian pitcher plant, Nepenthes gracilis, a species of carnivorous plant related to Venus flytraps, as well as sundews, beets and spinach. Possessing more ...

What distinguishes pitchers from other carnivorous plants and makes them so unique? Different carnivorous plants use various trapping mechanisms. Consider the Venus flytrap, which folds insects ...

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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 pongoides ...