Carnivorous plants are among the most unusual organisms in nature. Unlike most plants, they don't rely only on sunlight and soil for nutrients, they also trap and digest living prey. Found in nutrient ...

“Carnivory is primarily an adaptation for plants to get nutrients in low nutrient environments,” says Coogan. Carnivorous ...

Master Gardener Ciscoe Morris has me investigating Sarracenia for this week’s garden study. Sarracenia is the name of a group of plants that, to put it bluntly, eat meat. Lots of animals eat plants ...

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Audrey it’s not—but it’s pretty close. A large meat-eating plant, dubbed the "pitcher plant," was discovered in 2007 in the Philippines, and the details of the discovery have now been published in the ...

In 2013, amateur botanist, Reginaldo Vasconcelos spotted the meat-eating plant while hiking on a mountaintop in Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. The plant was huge and something he didn’t recognize, ...

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