This plant, named Nepenthes pongoides, belongs to the largest known pitcher plants and may be at risk of extinction. A research team led by Alastair Robinson from the Royal Botanic Gardens in ...

As Dr Martin Cheek points out, tropical pitcher plants “are unique because some species have the largest animal traps known in the plant world, and attract, trap and digest, not just large ...

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 ...

The pitcher plant Nepenthes x ventrata is gorgeous and popular with horticulturists, but it’s deadly for the insects that fall into the trap for which it is named. Yet the enzymes in the digestive ...