Carnivorous plants use a variety of strategies to lure prey into their traps. Some produce strong-smelling nectar and have intense colouration that mimic flowers. Others camouflage themselves ...

The striking “flowers” are actually modified leaves ... that make it hard for the critter to climb back out. The carnivorous plant then digests the insect, gaining nourishment that can ...

One reason why this plant’s carnivory was overlooked is that these hairs are very small and grow only on the flower stalk—a feature unlike any known carnivorous plant, Lin says. Botanists have ...

Carnivorous plant gardens and Orangeburg citrus ... And and I will also say you do the most beautiful flower arrangements of anybody I've ever seen. I do love the flowers. It gives me really ...

meaning each individual plant produces either male or female flowers. In fact, Nepenthes is the only dioecious carnivorous plant. Albert and Fukushima’s team also identified a male-specific region of ...

Carnivorous plants then start growing again in the spring and send up flower stalks. McMahon collects the seeds and then grows his own carnivorous plants that he gives away to friends, sells at ...

This is a carnivorous plant, meaning that it is able to capture ... ultimately bringing the flowering stem to the top. The underwater "floats" bear tiny traps on their edges.

Carnivorous plants come in a variety of ... a class of chemicals found in the scents of around two thirds of flowering plants which attract these pollinators. Meanwhile, S. purpurea also had ...

Botanists are in a race against time to save some of the world's most spectacular carnivorous plants from extinction. Over the past year a dozen previously unknown species of pitcher plants ...