Pitcher Plant is a Divine permanent seed that was introduced to Grow a Garden on June 7, 2025, as part of the Mega Harvest Update. If you're looking to add this elusive crop to your garden, I've put ...

An Israeli lab is pioneering research into a little-studied species of ant that has extraordinary building abilities and is found in the tropics, from India to northern Australia. Weaver ants work in ...

Fernando is a rock star. He's the resident staghorn fern who has been living in our greenhouse since 2010. He's roughly the size of an exercise ball — the kind you'd bounce around on. The shield ...

Most plants get on just fine with sunshine, water, and half-decent soil. Carnivorous plants don’t have that option. They tend to live in places where the soil is so poor in nutrients that normal roots ...

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New analyses show that Nepenthes khasiana, a carnivorous pitcher plant from northeast India, loads its nectar with a nerve-disabling chemical that quickly incapacitates ants and other insect ...

MIAMI — Just south of downtown Miami lies a place that feels worlds away from the bustling city. The Kampong, a tropical paradise founded by one of America's most prolific inventors, now boasts one of ...

Researchers have described a new-to-science species of carnivorous plant that’s known from only three locations on the Philippines’ Palawan Island. The newly described pitcher plant, which grows on ...

Close up of Sarracenia pitcher plant - Iryna Boiko/Getty Images There is something so intriguing about carnivorous plants, and having them in your home or garden is certainly a talking point (and a ...

Photos of Nepenthes megastoma, a newly described critically endangered species endemic to Palawan, Philippines, showing its lower pitcher (a) and two distinct variant forms of its upper pitcher (b-c).