Splash! Ooch! Yum! And so another unsuspecting insect victim of Nepenthes alata (N. alata), commonly known as the carnivorous pitcher plant, falls victim to the digestive fluids at the bottom of the ...

Figure 2: Surface features of the peristome in the pitchers of N. alata. The overall result is continuous and directional water transport, as illustrated in Fig. 3c: when a given microcavity fills to ...

Plants in the genus Nepenthes obtain a substantial nutrient supply by trapping insects in highly modified leaves. A broad zone of the inner surface of these pitchers is densely covered with wax ...

Carnivorous plants acquire substantial amounts of nitrogen from insects. The tropical carnivorous plant Nepenthes produces trapping organs called pitchers at the tips of tendrils elongated from leaf ...

video: This is the first monthly Bytesize Science video podcast. It shows what goes on inside of the bug-eating pitcher plant, Nepenthes Alata. view more ...