Pitcher plant
![Pitcher of Nepenthes distillatoria. A: Honey-gland from attractive surface of lid. B: Digestive gland from interior of pitcher, in pocket-like depression of epidermis, opening downwards. C: Traverse section same.](/Images/godic/202502/09/Pitcher_plant_diagram_ency_brit1923.png")
![Scanning electron micrograph of a pitcher's inner surface](/Images/godic/202502/09/Pitcher_plant_trichomes_pollen1923.jpg")
![Pitcher plants growing in a bog in Pennsylvania](/Images/godic/202502/09/Pitcher_plants_in_the_Linn_Run_bog.1923.jpg")
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Pitcher plants are several different carnivorous plants which have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive fluid liquid. The traps of what we consider to be "true" pitcher plants are created from modified leaves; however they are not simply folded into a tube, and the process is far more complicated.