Pitcher plants (Nepenthes spp.), also known as tropical pitcher plants or Asian pitcher plants, are colorful carnivorous plants that feed on insects by capturing them in cup-shaped structures that ...

The max size varies between species. Some Sarracenia pitcher plants max out at a few feet tall. Many Nepenthes plants can ...

The trap of an insect-eating Nepenthes pitcher plant ... explaining the evolution of temporarily inactive traps in carnivorous pitcher plants' by Bauer et al in Proc. R. Soc.