Carnivorous Plant Encyclopedia

A large perennial Byblis from Western Australia with spectacular mucilage-covered long leaves.

A selected clone of the Albany pitcher plant. In strong light the rim, then the whole pitcher and even the lid darken to a near-black purple. Selected by a British grower in the late 1980s and registered with the ICPS in 2007.

A unique one-species-genus from Australia with cute small urn-shaped pitchers, coveted by collectors.

A butterwort of wetlands along the US Gulf Coast. Its thin, flat leaves turn deep red to purple in full sun, and its purple flowers have petals notched almost halfway. A true wetland plant that can grow even when submerged.

Called Cobra Lily, a North American carnivorous plant with cobra-head-like pitchers preferring cool conditions.

A sundew that lays large kidney-shaped leaves flat on the ground, looking rather like a Venus flytrap. Native to tropical northern Australia, it rests as a bud at soil level in the dry season. Unusually for a carnivorous plant it grows on alkaline, calcareous soil.

An annual Australian sundew with both sticky tentacles and snap-tentacles that catapult prey in milliseconds.

Discovered in 2015, one of the world's largest sundews, endemic to one mountain in Brazil.

A large tropical sundew with tall stems from northern Australia, wild and impressive.

Called King Sundew, the largest sundew with leaves exceeding 60cm.

A highland sundew from South America whose type specimen was collected on Mount Roraima in the Guiana Highlands. It carries its sticky leaves on a short stem clothed in many dead leaves, and a glandular flower stalk bears about ten flowers.

A rare carnivorous plant from dry areas, attracting insects with honey-like sweet scent. Dislikes transplanting.

A South American carnivorous plant with underground spiral Y-shaped traps that capture microorganisms and protozoa.

A beautiful Heliamphora from Chimanta Tepui with stunningly red-colored tubes.

A sun pitcher from Guiana Highlands table mountains with beautifully simple tubular pitchers.

A small sun pitcher with clustered tubular pitchers 5-20 cm tall, each topped by a tiny helmet-shaped lid. It grows on the tepuis of the Chimantá Massif in Venezuela, and its name means 'pretty'.

A natural hybrid between N. rajah and N. villosa, found only around Mount Kinabalu in Borneo. Ribs on the inner edge of the peristome end in long teeth, and its pitchers are intermediate between the parents. It forms upper pitchers more readily than either parent.

A Nepenthes with two fang-like projections at the pitcher mouth, famous for ant symbiosis.

A pitcher plant with round, shield-shaped leaves whose tendril joins the underside of the blade, and large pitchers swollen at the base. It grows only on the granite cliffs of Mount Kelam in Borneo and is among the most threatened species in the wild.

A ultra-rare Kinabalu endemic with exquisitely toothed peristome of unmatched beauty.

A highland pitcher plant endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its upper pitchers are narrow below and flare abruptly above like a wine glass, the feature that separates it from its close relative N. maxima.