Plant pitcher plants in a well-drained potting medium, but avoid using standard houseplant soil mixes on carnivorous plants. A combination of equal parts long-fibered sphagnum moss and perlite ...
Pitcher plants require lots of bright, direct light as well as high humidity. Examine your house to see if you have a bright ...
The pitcher plant Nepenthes x ventrata is gorgeous and popular with horticulturists, but it’s deadly for the insects that fall into the trap for which it is named. Yet the enzymes in the digestive ...
Long stalks anchor the plant to the ground. 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 ...
Discover the astonishing world of plants that mimic animal behavior. From carnivorous sundews and Venus flytraps trapping insects to pitcher plants luring prey with deceptive scents, these ...
And these plants are especially impressive on Mount Kinabalu, with some species producing ‘pitchers the size of house cats.’ The Nepenthes pitcher plants of Mount Kinabalu, Borneo.