From 1938 to 1947, Newfoundland pennies featured a purple pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea). While pitcher plants are the easiest plants to keep indoors, their stunning shape and interesting habits ...

Many varieties can be propagated from leaf cuttings. There are many types of trumpet pitcher plants available, including Sarracenia purpurea, which has an attractive, ruffled appearance. The insects ...

This carnivorous purple pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) from Dutchess County, N.Y., was the two-millionth specimen to be digitized at The New York Botanical Garden.

But nature has so much more to it! Did you know some plants actually eat animals? Yes, it is indeed true and immensely fascinating, right? These carnivorous plant species have unique ways of ...

In scientists' eyes, each leaf of the northern pitcher plant is a small ecosystem. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

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! (03:27) ...

Here’s how. Plants can talk. Yes, really. Here’s how. Horrific summer travels? These tales are worse. Horrific summer travels? These tales are worse. New type of carnivorous plant found in ...

as well as various pitcher plants (species of Sarracenia) which are rather broadly distributed in the Southeast. Our Mystery Plant (Purple bladderwort, Utricularia purpurea), however, is a ...

However, consumption of a seed kills the plant before it can grow, making seed consumption an example of predation. Not all predators are animals. Carnivorous plants, such as the Venus fly trap ...

Around the world today, you’ll find at least 700 different kinds of carnivorous plants, ranging from pitcher plants that lure their victims into pools of digestive enzymes to adhesive-trap plants ...

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 ...