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Contents of Volume 54 Number 1, March 2025

• Sarracenia oreophila conservation project update — Carson Trexler
• Erratum: An updated nomenclatural conspectus of infrageneric names in Pinguicula — John Brittnacher
• An intimate view of the leaf surface of Pinguicula warijia — Martín Mata-Rosas and Greta Rosas-Saito and Sofía Gámez-Landaverde
• Are traps of Utricularia multifida and U. westonii active and do they create negative pressure? — Lubomír Adamec and Simon Poppinga
• An account of Drosera section Arcturia — Richard Nunn
• A short visit to find carnivorous plants in Northern Taiwan — Aaron Liu
• New cultivars — Y. Chen and Evan Wang and Emmy Wang and Christian Duran Gonzalez and Arthur Sanguet

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Sundews’ secret to survival: how carnivorous plants adapt to microhabitat challenges    
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The Carnivorous Plant Newsletter (CPN) is the official publication of the International Carnivorous Plant Society. CPN is published in March, June, September, and December.

Features of CPN include horticultural articles, research papers, field trip reports, conservation news, book and literature reviews, communications from members, cultivar and species descriptions, and meeting announcements.

Contents of Volume 53 Number 4, December 2024

• An updated nomenclatural conspectus of infrageneric names in Pinguicula — Juan Carlos Zamora and Andreas Fleischmann
• The action phenomenon of Drosera scorpioides Planch — Miloslav Studnička
• Finding every described sundew in the Western Cape, South Africa — Boaz Ng
• Marauding of carnivorous plants in a suburban environment — Donna Garrou
• New cultivars — Joel Eduardo Vidal and Vincenzo Castellaneta
• ICPS membership fee schedule — Richard Nunn

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The Carnivorous Plant Newsletter (CPN) is the official publication of the International Carnivorous Plant Society. CPN is published in March, June, September, and December.

Features of CPN include horticultural articles, research papers, field trip reports, conservation news, book and literature reviews, communications from members, cultivar and species descriptions, and meeting announcements.

Contents of Volume 53 Number 3, September 2024

• Additions to the ICPS Achievement Awards webpage — John Brittnacher
• Obituary Emeritus Prof. Dr. Stephen E. Williams — Siegfried R. H. Hartmeyer
• Anatomic adaptation of stems of aquatic Utricularia species dragging turions to the bottom of their habitats — Lubomír Adamec and Hana Sehadová and Jiří Doležal and Veronika Jandová
• Utricularia australis R. Br. (Lentibulariaceae): an addition to the carnivorous plants in flora of Gujarat, India — P. K. Patel and Chirag Prajapati
• Utricularia purpurea (Purple Bladderwort) occasionally weedy in northern Wisconsin — Teresa A. Golembiewski
• New cultivars — Rob Maharajh and John Ende and Joseph C. Sullivan
• Cultivar names registered in 2022 and 2023 — Jan Schlauer

View the Contents of All CPN Issues

The Carnivorous Plant Newsletter (CPN) is the official publication of the International Carnivorous Plant Society. CPN is published in March, June, September, and December.

Features of CPN include horticultural articles, research papers, field trip reports, conservation news, book and literature reviews, communications from members, cultivar and species descriptions, and meeting announcements.

Contents of Volume 53 Number 2, June 2024

• Expanding our scope: a larger endangered species restoration project — Carson Trexler
• Commemorating the life and career of Katsuhiko Kondo with the 2024 ICPS Lifetime Achievement Award — Richard Nunn and Carson Trexler
• Pinguicula lusitanica and P. crystallina subsp. hirtiflora traps — Miloslav Studnička
• A survey of pesticide use in horticulturally-grown carnivorous plants, with a review of arthropod pests — Michael Skvarla and Jonathan Larson
• Comparative shoot morphology between cultivated Utricularia bremii plants and those growing in natural habitats in the Czech Republic — Lubomír Adamec
• Review: A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo — Siegfried R.H. Hartmeyer
• New cultivars — Giuseppe Grossi and Fred Passkiewicz

View the Contents of All CPN Issues

The Carnivorous Plant Newsletter (CPN) is the official publication of the International Carnivorous Plant Society. CPN is published in March, June, September, and December.

Features of CPN include horticultural articles, research papers, field trip reports, conservation news, book and literature reviews, communications from members, cultivar and species descriptions, and meeting announcements.

Contents of Volume 53 Number 1, March 2024

• CPN needs articles from you — Richard Nunn
• Heliamphora electrum (Sarraceniaceae), an enigmatic species of marsh pitcher plant from the Sierra de Lema of Venezuela — Michal R. Golos and Joachim Nerz and François Sockhom Mey and Andreas Wistuba
• Dealing with loss as a horticulturist — Cyrus Exum
• New cultivars — Alessio Ragghianti and Miroslav Srba and Carson Trexler   
   

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