Welcome to the International Carnivorous Plant Society! We are a group of gardeners, conservationists, scientists and educators all interested in sharing knowledge and news of carnivorous plants. We welcome hobbyists just getting started all the way through professional scientists to join our society.

Take a look around our website and you'll find historic documents about carnivorous plants, growing guides, FREE educational resources and more! Have questions? Ask! We don't but bite, but our plants do.

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Virtual Events on Zoom

The ICPS is offering Virtual Events on Zoom.

Hortus Schoenbrunnensis and the history of carnivorous plants at Schönbrunn 
Jul 4, 2024 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 
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Sundew trap development: Proteomic perspective 
Jul 23, 2024 1:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 
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Unveiling Sundew Digestion: Chitinases at Work 
Aug 6, 2024 8:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Non-members of the ICPS are welcome. Our webinars will be recorded. They will be posted on the ICPS's social media (FB + YouTube) accounts about a week after the events.

The Virtual Events are hosted by ICPS Education Director, Kenny Coogan.

 

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June 2024 CPN

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

 

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March 2024 CPN

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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December 2023 CPN

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 52 Number 4, December 2023

  • From the Editors — John Brittnacher
  • Erratum — Bob Ziemer
  • ICPS Conference 2024 – Vienna, Austria — Christian Dietz and Carsten Paul and Günter Seiter and Daniel Rohrauer
  • A new future: Carnivorous plant conservation and the ICPS — Carson Trexler
  • Auburn University 2023 Sarracenia oreophila conservation project — Patrick Thompson and Augustus Kirby
  • ICPS Conference 2023 – Himeji, Japan — Koji Kondo
  • Japanese carnivorous plant groups and organisations — Takaaki Kagawa
  • A review of Japanese-native carnivorous plants — Takaaki Kagawa
  • The 13th ICPS Post-Conference Tour to the greatest botanical gardens of Hyogo Pref., Japan — Emmi Kurosawa
  • The 13th ICPS Post-Conference wetland expeditions — Justin Dunning
  • The 13th ICPS Conference Pinguicula ramosa expedition — Emmi Kurosawa
  • New cultivars — Emmi Kurosawa

 

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September 2023 CPN

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 52 Number 3, September 2023

  • 13th ICPS International Conference, Japan
  • 14th ICPS International Conference, Austria
  • Nepenthes limiana (Nepenthaceae), a new pitcher plant from the northern Titiwangsa Range of Peninsular Malaysia — Michal R. Golos and François Sockhom Mey and Andreas Wistuba and Gideon Lim and Stewart R. McPherson and Alastair S. Robinson
  • Quick note: Byblis gigantea and B. liniflora traps work the same — Miloslav Studnicka
  • Successful cultivation of Darlingtonia californica in a hot climate via root zone chilling — Shawn Lyons
  • An inexpensive growth chamber for Heliamphora — Gregory Beylin
  • Education Corner — Kenny Coogan
  • New cultivars — Mark Rubnitz and Mark S. Anderson and Sergio Mejias Hinojosa and Zihang Qiu

 

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June 2023 CPN

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 52 Number 2, June 2023

  • Support the ICPS Conservation Fund — Carson Trexler
  • Pinguicula lithophytica is not conspecific with Pinguicula jaraguana or a variety of Pinguicula jackii — Paul Temple and Ivan Pančo and Cristina M. Panfet Valdés and Yoannis Domínguez
  • ICPS Roundtables — Kenny Coogan
  • Carnivorous plants and conservation – the role of carnivorous plant enthusiasts — Andreas Fleischmann
  • Education Corner: Carnivores in the Classroom update — Kenny Coogan
  • New cultivars — Julien Müller and Evan Wang and Emmy Wang and Mark Rubnitz and Arlen Weng and Emanuele Melani and Lukas Mondoux and Michael Richard Sprouse and Fred Vosse and Mentaz Philippe and Guilherme Baião and Bruno Garcia

 

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