Carnivorous Plant Encyclopedia

A pitcher plant surviving at only about a dozen sites in central Alabama. Its finely hairy yellow-green pitchers are veined red, and its reddish-purple flowers smell of raspberries. It is a CITES Appendix I subspecies.

A carnivorous bromeliad from the tepuis of the Guiana Highlands. Its yellow-green leaves overlap into a water-filled tube, and a waxy coating makes insects slip in and drown. Digestive enzyme activity was confirmed in 2005.

An Australian carnivorous plant with rainbow-glistening mucilage, called Rainbow Plant.

A bromeliad carnivorous plant that traps insects with waxy leaf surfaces, drowning them in leaf-cup water for nutrients.

A natural hybrid of the round-leaved sundew and the great sundew, with spoon-shaped leaves intermediate between its parents. It is sterile and must be propagated by division or leaf cuttings. It occurs in Japan in bogs where both parents grow together.

A North American sundew with thread-like long leaves, stunningly beautiful when glistening with dew.

A tall sundew native to Japan as well, but wild populations have drastically declined.

A 'woolly' sundew of the petiolaris group with broad petioles densely covered in long silvery hairs. Rosettes are usually about 8 cm across. It bears pink to white flowers and grows around the Ord River in northern Australia.

A tropical sundew from northern Australia with rosette trap leaves on long petioles.

A unique sundew producing plantlets on flower stalks, spreading in an interesting creeping manner.

A round-leaved sundew native to Japan, growing in wetlands. Goes dormant in winter.

An Australian sundew propagating by gemmae with scorpion-tail-like flower stalks.

A Japanese endemic sundew discovered in the Tokai region with intermediate leaf shape.

A carnivorous plant with underground Y-shaped traps, cute flowers above but trapping below.

A complex hybrid pitcher plant sold as N. × mixta (N. northiana × N. maxima) crossed with N. × dicksoniana (N. rafflesiana × N. veitchii). A hybrid of the same parentage was raised at Veitch's nursery in Britain in 1900.

True to its name ('white-margined'), this pitcher plant has a band of white hairs just below the rim. The hairs lure termites, making it known as a termite-specialist carnivore. Pitchers are about 15 cm tall.

A unique Nepenthes clustering pitchers on the ground, decomposing fallen leaves for nutrition.

A lowland pitcher plant of the east coast of Madagascar. It bears mostly slender, funnel-shaped yellow upper pitchers with a broad peristome and an almost circular lid, and was the first Nepenthes species recorded scientifically, in the 17th century.