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Post by chamelea on Sept 18, 2016 22:53:28 GMT -5
This guy's my first-ever Nepenthes and was growing pretty well this summer in the garden. It got fat off of the copious spiders that seemed to love my yard. Wasn't really sure what it was though, and wondering if someone could ID it for me? I'm not familiar enough with these plants, although they're fast-becoming my favourite.
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Post by keeper on Sept 19, 2016 9:03:01 GMT -5
Very nice looking plant! I'd like to think this is a Nepenthes xMastersiana , an old hybrid between N.sanguinea and N.khasiana. Not 100% but it really resembles that parentage
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Post by keeper on Sept 19, 2016 9:08:52 GMT -5
Could also be somewhat of a more uncommon form of N. [alata X ventricosa]
Hard to say , beauty pitchers though.
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Post by chamelea on Sept 21, 2016 13:35:44 GMT -5
Awesome, thanks for the help! Maybe if I let a couple more pitchers grow in, it'll be easier to tell? And thank you, I love this plant <3 Now for me to look up those species. lol
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Post by chamelea on Apr 26, 2017 12:11:33 GMT -5
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Post by WillyCKH on Apr 27, 2017 0:23:23 GMT -5
It's a beauty nonetheless... Any cutting or division for trade?
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Post by chamelea on Apr 27, 2017 7:16:05 GMT -5
Yeah! I was thinking of trimming one this year cos it has a large basal that grew in last autumn and now a new one coming in. I've never done that before though. Any tips?
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Post by WillyCKH on Apr 27, 2017 9:25:00 GMT -5
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Post by chamelea on Apr 27, 2017 15:03:48 GMT -5
Thanks for the info!
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Post by shelilla on May 12, 2017 0:46:17 GMT -5
I don't think it's a Ventrata, the pitcher coloring and patterns, as well as pitcher size and shape, even lid shape are very different (but like someone else said it could be a different form, who the heck knows when it comes to Neps- it's extremely hard to find correctly identified pics out there because the internet just comes up with whatever the heck it wants whenever you look up a specific plant. For a while I was very convinced mine was an Alata, but thankfully a forum member educated me later on and now I can correctly tell what it is) For reference and comparison, my Ventrata looks like this: The spike on the back is actually called a 'spur', I recently found out (and never knew grew on the pitchers of this one, which up until now had only partially-formed pitchers) (Little lower pitcher yet to open it's lid) If anything is shared between them, the opening of the pitcher (or the 'mouth') are very similar. It could be a hybrid of one of the species that also gave birth to the Ventrata, or it's just a common trait between Neps that live in a certain climate or feed off a certain food. The most defining characteristics of Neps are their pitchers. I would look at many photos of Ventricosa and Alata to tell of it is any sort of form of Ventrata, because if it is it's bound to match one of the species' colours, pattern, lips, shape, size, etc~ have fun, and very nice plant! :3
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