Many people may be familiar with the sinister jaws of Venus flytraps or even the bulbous pouches of pitcher plants, but the truth is that those species barely scratch the surface of the wonderfully ...
From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...
Genlisea, or the “corkscrew” carnivorous plant, doesn’t wait above ground to hunt. Here’s how it traps tiny prey right ...
Grow carnivorous pitcher plants indoors and your guests will never forget them! These ferocious beauties are easily identified by modified leaves that bear an uncomfortable similarity to male anatomy.
How and why does botanical carnivory keep evolving? How and why does botanical carnivory keep evolving? It turns out that when any of the basic things that most plants need aren’t there, some plants ...