Found only near the summit of Mount Victoria on the island of Palawan in the Philippines, Attenborough’s pitcher plant, Nepenthes attenboroughii, is critically endangered. One of the largest of all ...

When Peter D’Amato sold 11-year-old Damon Collingsworth his first carnivorous plant at a Sausalito flea market in summer 1989, their lives changed forever. For nearly a decade, Collingsworth ...

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These carnivorous plants have evolved in ingenious ways—inspiring innovations from nonstick sprays to water repellants. What other mysteries do pitcher plants hold? A tropical pitcher plant's ...

For carnivorous-plant enthusiasts it is a double tragedy ... The pitchers vary in size, but the biggest can be 30cm long or more, putting them among the largest in the world.

Today, carnivorous plants are having another big moment as researchers begin to get answers to one of botany’s great unsolved riddles: How did typically mild-mannered flowering plants evolve ...