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Post by Flytrap on Jul 20, 2006 16:30:25 GMT -5
Here's some photos of some old Nepenthes hybrids grown over here on the westcoast. The oldest of the lot is the N sanguinea x macfarlanii. Originated as a small plant in a friend's collection back in the early 1980's, and is now in a number of collections in Washington state and BC. Here's a photo of the lower pitcher. The original plant has vined and was over 30+ feet in length, until it was chopped back last week: Here's a couple of photos of the hybrid N albomarginata x bicalcarata. Grows to monstrous proportions, with leaf blades over 3 feet long plus the tendril and pitcher, making it over 4 feet in length per leaf! Only the lower pitchers show stumpy little fangs. Here are some photos of an upper pitcher: And my favourite, N rafflesiana x ampullaria = N x hookeriana. This clone is the biggest pitchering and fastest growing one ...outgrowing it's siblings (from a seed collection I collected in Malaysia in 1998). It averages about one pitcher every 12 days (I guess that's hybrid vigour for you!): And here they ( x hookeriana) as seedlings. I took this photo back in 1999 / 2000:
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Post by sdeering on Jul 20, 2006 23:08:18 GMT -5
HMmm how many cuttings does one get from a thirty footer. Great picks treefrog. STephen
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Post by zac on Jul 21, 2006 0:38:35 GMT -5
That N. hookeriana is amazing. Great pics of great plants.
Zac
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Post by Flytrap on Jul 21, 2006 15:42:40 GMT -5
Thanks for your kind words.
The 30' plant was cut down to about 8'. Most of the plant went into the compost heap, a few of the growing tips were saved to see if they would strike.
This was my friend's plant, and his trimming effort, I just sat and chatted with him while he gave the plant the haircut.
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Post by setep on Jul 24, 2006 18:02:34 GMT -5
Nice pics. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by tom on Jul 25, 2006 14:45:56 GMT -5
Wow, I love that bical x albo... I have not seen this very often in collection or over the internet . Thanks for sharing
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Post by Flytrap on Jul 25, 2006 16:48:02 GMT -5
Tom-
I've placed some cuttings of the albo x bical into sphag. If they take root (which it should), I'll put your name on one of them, and you promise to give it a happy home.
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Post by tom on Jul 26, 2006 8:59:04 GMT -5
Thanks David, I should solve my fungi/bacterial problem by the time the cutting strikes, I,ll let you know by then
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