Inside The Stomach Of A Carnivorous Plant. Dissecting a Tropical Nepenthes Pitcher Plant

Inside The Stomach Of A Carnivorous Plant. Dissecting a Tropical Nepenthes Pitcher Plant. Nepenthes (/nɨˈpɛnθiːz/), popularly known as tropical pitcher plants or monkey cups, is a genus of carnivorous plants in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae. The genus comprises roughly 140 species, and numerous natural and many cultivated hybrids. They are mostly liana-forming plants of the Old World tropics, ranging from South China, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines; westward to Madagascar (two species) and the