While the carnivorous cravings of most flesh-eating plants are limited to small insects, one exception is the pitcher plant. It can consume anything that fits in its mouthincluding a mouse! (03:27) ...

These affordable devices aim to keep your plants hydrated when you're out of town or too busy to keep up. I tested two to see ...

Carnivorous plants have developed specialized structures to capture and digest prey for essential nutrients in nutrient-poor environments. These include pitcher plants with pitfall traps ...

Here’s how. Plants can talk. Yes, really. Here’s how. Horrific summer travels? These tales are worse. Horrific summer travels? These tales are worse. New type of carnivorous plant found in ...

Most houseplants will thrive in a well-lit, draught-free spot with an even temperature and reasonably high humidity. However some plants have specific needs. For instance, flowering plants and ...

A lack of nitrogen in the soil where they grow means that these carnivorous plants use their hollow, jug-shaped pitchers to obtain the nutrient from animals instead. As Dr Martin Cheek points out ...

Individual organisms in a community interact in many different ways. An interaction may benefit both individuals, or the interaction may benefit one organism to the detriment of the other.

The world's tallest indoor waterfall not only thrills ... The Nepenthes rajah, the largest carnivorous pitcher plant in the world endemic to Mount Kinabalu, grows in the Cloud Forest conservatory.

The botanical garden’s interior features plant-description displays and green saxophones standing in as pitcher plants. Photo: Annemarie Conte Turn the finial above the dome to make butterflies ...