The New Phytologist, Vol. 159, No. 2, Special Issue: Heavy Metals and Plants (Aug., 2003), pp. 507-511 (5 pages) • Carnivory in plants is restricted to nutrient-poor and open habitats presumably ...

We transplanted Sphagnum 'turfs' containing abundant Drosera rotundifolia into an existing nitrogen deposition experiment at Whim Moss near Edinburgh. These mesocosms received simulated N deposition ...

A new, carnivorous plant has been discovered in Kentucky.The Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves posted on Facebook that their botanists found some Round-leaved Sundew, or Drosera rotundifolia, ...

Scientists have uncovered how sundews, Charles Darwin's favorite plant, become more carnivorous in certain habitats. Researchers from Loughborough and Gloucester universities found that they alter the ...

(LEX 18) — The Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves announced the discovery of a new carnivorous plant native to Kentucky, the Round-leaved Sundew, also known as Drosera rotundifolia. According to OKNP ...

DURING the summer of 1877 I began an experiment, the results of which were given in a paper read before the Linnean Society, January 17, 1878. A number of Drosera Plants were freely supplied with meat ...

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1. Sundews are a carnivorous plant, and despite their tiny size they are a formidable foe for insects on every continent except Antarctica! There at least 194 species of sundew, or Drosera, and they ...

A FEMALE correspondent and friend of Charles Darwin, Lady Ellen Lubbock, sent him part of a poem she wrote after reading his work Insectivorous Plants (1875). It included the verse: Beginning all to ...