Carnivorous plants such as Nepenthes acquire the ability to reproduce even in soils lacking nutrients such as nitrogen by preying on insects. In addition, new research has shown that a type of ...

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Nepenthes is a type of carnivore plants originated from Indonesia. Some species of Nephentes are currently endangered and has a limited distribution. The Indonesian Institute ...

By Shreya Dasgupta Researchers have described a new-to-science species of carnivorous plant that’s known from only three ...

In Cambodia, video of women suggestively joking around with a protected carnivorous specimen prompted a government admonition: Hands off, people. By Richard C. Paddock The three women shrieked and ...

Old World pitcher plants (Nepenthes spp., Nepenthaceae) trap and digest invertebrate prey to derive nutrients, primarily nitrogen (N). In the majority of lowland Nepenthes species studied to date, ...

Possessing more than two complete sets of chromosomes can be a hindrance to long-term survival of a plant lineage, yet scientists are also finding evidence it’s likely behind some evolutionary ...

On the north coast of the island of Borneo, in a steaming, fetid place called the Pantu peat-swamp forest, I choked on a gnat as beads of sweat slowly rolled down my face. Between my right thumb and ...

Botanists are in a race against time to save some of the world's most spectacular carnivorous plants from extinction. Over the past year a dozen previously unknown species of pitcher plants, at least ...

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A number of genera of Histiostomatidae inhabit phytotelmata, being found fully submerged and filtering organic matter from the fluid. One such phytotelm habitat is the fluid-filled pitchers of species ...