Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that the plants can't absorb from the soil. Not only does this alien-looking ...

Insect-eating carnivorous plants that evolved to feed on animal droppings have a more nutritious diet than their carnivorous cousins. ... and is perhaps the most unusual species in the genus, ...

Carnivorous plants keep prey separate from useful pollinating insects by growing their real flowers at the end of long stalks, ... It’s the only species of its genus and does not produce its own ...

The plant belongs to the butterworts genus, which comprises more than 100 species. Pinguicula jimburensis was found on the shore of a highland lagoon at an altitude of about 11,110 feet.

While most often its animals that consume plants, the opposite is true in a unique group of plants classified as carnivorous. Reference to the latter often conjures up images from movies of some ...

Sarracenia, a genus of carnivorous pitcher plants, may have evolved to take advantage of their insects prey's sense of smell.

New research into the plant genus Arisaema points to an unusual evolutionary process within the plant kingdom. The relationship between a species of the carnivorous Arisaema plant genus may have a ...

IT is not unlikely that there may be a great demand for plants of the genus Drosera, and as I am in a neighbourhood where the supply of the D. rotundifolia and D. intermedia is inexhaustible, I ...

This small, sticky-leaved plant captures insects with its glandular hairs, slowly digesting them for nutrients. If you’re looking for plants that bite, meet the bladderworts (Utricularia genus). These ...

Utricularia, a genus of rootless carnivorous plants, is better known by its common name, bladderwort. There are more than 200 species worldwide, living in fresh water and saturated soils.

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Carnivorous plant gardens and Orangeburg citrus. ... Sarracenia, which is the genus for pitcher plants, can occur all the way up into Canada and down through Texas, I believe.