Their list of the top new plants includes carnivorous pitcher plants, exotic orchids and climbers with untapped medicinal powers. Prof Aiah Lebbie discovered an unusual plant clinging to rocks ...
This may be mutualism, with the gecko's presence keeping predators of planthoppers away, but scientists aren't sure yet. Pitcher plants are carnivores that use nectar at the rim of their tube-like ...
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 ...
It is also home to a number of other species of carnivorous plants, less famous and more widespread but no less bizarre. You can find pitcher plants with leaves like champagne flutes, into which ...