What is a Venus fly trap? The Venus fly trap is a carnivorous plant that is native to North and South Carolina. The plant gets its name from its ability to trap and eat flies and other small insects.

Leaves display a remarkable range of forms from flat sheets with simple outlines to the cup-shaped traps found in carnivorous plants. A general question in developmental and evolutionary biology is ...

Bladderworts (Utricularia spp. Lentibulariaceae) are plants with many superlatives: They belong to the most recently evolved and also the largest genus of carnivorous flowering plants, encompassing ...

A group of researchers, who found a new species of Utricularia in Kottayam, Kerala, has named the plant as Utricularia Kamarudeenii after Dr M Kamarudeen Kunju, a botanist, teacher and ...

New findings have been gained on the biomechanics and evolution of suction traps in carnivorous bladderworts. Bladderworts (Utricularia spp. Lentibulariaceae) are plants with many superlatives: They ...

Extremely rare carnivorous plant species discovered for the first time in Uttarakhand. What’s The News? Dehradun: A team of Uttarakhand Forest Department has found an extremally rare carnivorous plant ...

A new species of Utricularia — carnivorous plants popularly called bladderworts — discovered by chance in the paddy fields of Kottayam has been named after a botanist and teacher who campaigned to ...

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