While trumpet pitcher plants, mentioned above, are native to North America, the tropical varieties (Nepenthes) hail mostly ...

But the purple pitcher plant, which lives in bogs and infertile sandy soils in much of North America, enlists other organisms to digest its food. It is home to an intricate food web of mosquito ...

There are more than 150 species of pitcher plant in the world. This new discovery, Nepenthes biak, only grows on the small island of Biak, off the north coast of Indonesian New Guinea. Martin ...