Pitcher plant
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Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants that have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—prey-trapping mechanisms featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid. The traps of what are considered t
Scanning electron micrograph inner surface of pitcher plant
Pitcher plants growing in a bog in Pennsylvania
Nepenthes muluensis pitchers hang from tendrils. (This specimen is cultivated.)
Most North American pitcher plants belong to the genus Sarracenia.
Cephalotus
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Cephalotus is a genus which contains one species, Cephalotus follicularis the Albany pitcher plant, a small carnivorous pitcher plant. The pit-fall traps of the modified leaves have inspired the commo
Pitcher plant
…pitcher plant" generally refers to members of the Nepenthaceae and Sarraceniaceae families, but similar pitfall traps are employed by the monotypic Cephalotaceae and some members of the Bromeliaceae. The families Nepenthaceae and Sarraceniaceae are the most species-rich families of pitcher plants. The Nepenthaceae…
Cephalotus follicularis 0001
Simple leaves
Inflorescence of an Australian pitcher plant
Trap leaf