There are currently around 630 species of carnivorous plant known to science. Although most meat-eating plants consume insects, larger plants are capable of digesting reptiles and small mammals.

If you have any flies in your house, they will likely make their way to the pitcher plant. If your home is free from insects, ...

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!

an assemblage which most other pitcher plants are too small to trap, he revealed. He said the plant’s striking similarity to the orangutan’s hair was front of mind for the team so naming the ...

The pitcher plant Nepenthes x ventrata is gorgeous and popular with horticulturists, but it’s deadly for the insects that fall into the trap for which it is named. Yet the enzymes in the digestive ...