Also known as 'Pitcher plants' comprise several genera of carnivorous plants without closer relationship. One of them is the genus Nepenthes, the tropical pitcher plants.

Their traps are bizarre pitchers, often colourful like an exotic flower. It's hard to believe that they are only specialised leaves. The rim covered with slippery wax, the pitcher filled with digestive fluid, they attract their prey with colour, sugar and smell. And while being deadly traps for most insects, they are a place to live for others. Larvae of mosquitoes or flies grow up safely in the 'stomach' of the plant.

Borneo is the centre of Nepenthes diversity. About thirty of the genus' over 80 species grow there. Lowland rainforests and high mountains, undisturbed forests but also degraded areas provide a wide range of habitats for pitcher plants.