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pitcher-plant
[f. pitcher1 + plant n.1]
Name for several plants which have the leaves, or some of them, modified into the form of a pitcher, often containing a liquid secretion by means of which insects are captured and assimilated by the plant; esp. the south-east Asian genus Nepenthes, and the N. American genus Sarracenia.
Also Darlingtonia californica, and Heliamphora nutans of Guiana (both allied to Sarracenia) and Cephalotus follicularis of Australia.
1819L. A. Anspach Hist. Newfoundland xiv. 362 Another still more remarkable plant, found in the woods of Newfoundland, is the Saracenia [sic], commonly called side-saddle flower, or pitcher-plant. 1835Henslow Princ. Bot. i. §80 In the Nepenthes, or true pitcher-plant, the pitcher is placed at the extremity of a tendril, terminating a winged petiole. It is crowned with a membranous lid. 1857Gray First Lessons Bot. (1866) 51 The common Pitcher-plant or Side-saddle Flower..of our bogs. 1883G. Allen in Longm. Mag. July 311 The pitcher plants allure flies into their murderous vessels. 1929Robbins & Rickett Botany xxiii. 356 Some of the most striking leaf modifications are in the plants known as pitcher plants. 1938[see bake-apple]. 1947I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xxxiii. 220 She could not sleep.., thinking of the phantom pygmies in the pitcher-plant swamps. 1965Austral. Encycl. VII. 123/2 The Western Australian pitcher-plant is Cephalotus follicularis. 1965D. Henderson Heart of Newfoundland 19 We had seen pitcher plants before..but never in such numbers as are found in Newfoundland. 1973Sci. Amer. Dec. 64/2 In these [Borneo] forests the insect-eating pitcher plants (Nepenthes) are common. 1977Borneo Bull. 7 May 8/1 Did you know that of 30 pitcher plant species found in Borneo, 16 are said to be found on the mountain, and many of them are peculiar to its slopes? |