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Carnivorous & Parasitic Plants

Carnivorous plants are plants that have adapted to life in nutrient poor soil by deriving their nutrients from consuming insects, arthropods and such while still deriving their energy from photosynthesis like normal plants. Parasitic plants depends on other plants for sustenance. All questions about carnivorous and parasitic plants can be directed here.

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How tall does the carnivorous plant grow and who discovered it?

That depends upon the species.

There are records of tropical pitcher plants (nepenthes) that have grown over sixty feet tall on their vine, however, this is quite rare.

The largest and tallest sundew (drosera) was a d. erythrogyne that grew seven feet tall, had over a thousand leaves and seven hundred flowers.

Some larger sarracenia (north American pitcher plants) can grow four foot tall traps, which make these the largest plant traps in the world. Examples include the endangered S. Oreophila and the common S. Alata.

The discoverers were multiple. I can only give the data recorded.