New kind of plant movement discovered in a carnivorous pitcher plant

Monday, October 5, 2015 - 14:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The traps of Nepenthes gracilis use heavy rain as a power source to drive a fast prey capture motion, new research from the University of Bristol has found. The findings are published this week in the journal PNAS.

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