Carnivorous Plant Encyclopedia
Nepenthes ampullaria
Nepenthes ampullaria — the pitcher plant that abandoned strict carnivory for leaf litter. Detritivorous biology, carpet-forming rosettes, and the easiest Nepenthes for terrarium beginners. Read More →
Nepenthes ampullaria
Nepenthes ampullaria — the pitcher plant that abandoned strict carnivory for leaf litter. Detritivorous biology, carpet-forming rosettes, and the easiest Nepenthes for terrarium beginners. Read More →
Nepenthes alata
Complete cultivation guide for Nepenthes alata, the most widely grown tropical pitcher plant in the world. Covers the Cheek and Jebb 2013 taxonomic revision splitting the alata complex, Philippine habitat...
Nepenthes alata
Complete cultivation guide for Nepenthes alata, the most widely grown tropical pitcher plant in the world. Covers the Cheek and Jebb 2013 taxonomic revision splitting the alata complex, Philippine habitat...
Heliamphora nutans
Heliamphora nutans is the founding species of the tepui sun pitcher genus, described from Mount Roraima specimens by George Bentham in 1840. Endemic to the cool, cloud-shrouded plateaus of the...
Heliamphora nutans
Heliamphora nutans is the founding species of the tepui sun pitcher genus, described from Mount Roraima specimens by George Bentham in 1840. Endemic to the cool, cloud-shrouded plateaus of the...
Heliamphora minor
Heliamphora minor is the smallest and most cultivated of the marsh pitcher plants, native to the summit of Auyán-tepui in Venezuela's Lost World tepuis. Described by Pittier in 1909, this...
Heliamphora minor
Heliamphora minor is the smallest and most cultivated of the marsh pitcher plants, native to the summit of Auyán-tepui in Venezuela's Lost World tepuis. Described by Pittier in 1909, this...
Genlisea violacea
Genlisea violacea is the corkscrew plant — a South American member of the Lentibulariaceae family (same family as Utricularia and Pinguicula) with a completely unique trap mechanism among carnivorous plants:...
Genlisea violacea
Genlisea violacea is the corkscrew plant — a South American member of the Lentibulariaceae family (same family as Utricularia and Pinguicula) with a completely unique trap mechanism among carnivorous plants:...
Drosophyllum lusitanicum
Drosophyllum lusitanicum is the Portuguese dewy pine — a monotypic Mediterranean carnivorous plant from southwestern Iberia and Morocco, the only species in the family Drosophyllaceae and the only large flypaper...
Drosophyllum lusitanicum
Drosophyllum lusitanicum is the Portuguese dewy pine — a monotypic Mediterranean carnivorous plant from southwestern Iberia and Morocco, the only species in the family Drosophyllaceae and the only large flypaper...