pitcher plants Archives « Botany One

Read all about it: Plants that get their own back on animals

Nepenthes × ventrata

Featured Plant Cuttings

Coeliacs, snakebites and the perils of apricots…

Nigel Chaffey continues his exploration of the unexpected health benefits of some foods.

Wood anatomical sections of Nepenthaceae

Annals of Botany

Evolution of a carnivorous plant’s wood anatomy

The trap of a pitcher plant

Annals of Botany

Proteome analysis of digestive fluids in Nepenthes pitchers

Pitcher plant uses power of the rain to trap prey

The trap of a pitcher plant

Life in a place of death? Pitcher plants as habitat