Giant meat-eating plants prefer to eat tree shrew poo By Matt Walker. The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo. Botanists have discovered ...

Endemic to Borneo, the giant montane pitcher plant, Nepenthes rajah, is the largest carnivorous plant in the world. Its urn-shaped traps grow up to 41 centimetres tall with a pitcher capable of ...

The giant montane pitcher plant is a botanical predator, ruthlessly luring in prey and feasting on its victims--except when it's not. Researchers have discovered that the carnivorous plant is mighty ...

The giant pitcher plants were located on Mount Victoria in Palawan, central Philippines by a team led by UK botanist Stewart McPherson. The second largest species, now called Nepenthes ...

A giant plant that can gobble up bugs and even rodents has been discovered in Southeast Asia. The carnivorous plant (nepenthes attenboroughii) was found by researchers atop Mt. Victoria, a remote ...

Giant pitchers are plants characterized by large, distinctive bell-shaped upper and lower pitchers and narrow, upright lids. The purpose of the pitcher is to capture both rainfall and insects.

Abilities of plants span from regeneration to long distance reproduction. Some plants, such as the carnivorous Giant Montane Pitcher Plant, can consume whole rats. So, when a plant responds to ...

KOTA KINABALU: The highly adaptable pitcher plant is facing threats in Sabah, with seven species listed as threatened on the International Union for Conser­vation of Nature Red List.