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Pitcher plants include the largest and most spectacular of all carnivorous plants. So-called because they produce highly specialised foliage that takes the form of hollow, water-filled pitchers, these extraordinary plants lure and prey upon arthropods and other small animals.
Volume One includes - Introduction; Carnivorous plants of the world; The Pitcher plants of the old world; The evolution of the Pitcher plants of the old world; Trapping processes, Infauna, Nepenthes of Borneo and Nepenthes of Peninsular Malaysia and Indochina.
Volume Two includes - Nepenthes of the Philippines; Nepenthes of Sumatra and Java; Nepenthes of Sulawes; Nepenthes of New Guinea and the Maluku Islands; Nepenthes of the outlying areas; Nepenthes hybrids; Cephalotus follicularis; Habitat loss and the threat of extinction; and Cultivation and Horticulture; Appendix, Glossary, Bibliography and Index.
