The shape and the colors are beautiful. And eerie, somehow. Or is that only because I know that they capture and eat insects! I saw this plant in the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida. I would love to see one in real life.It […]

The cobra lily got its name from the hood-like shape of its specialized leaf: a pitcher filled with a secretion that digests insects lured by the sweet liquid to enter and slip down the pitcher into the fatal brew. This plant isn’t a lily at […]