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At the Cloud Forest, Gardens by the Bay.

Red-veined variety of the Trumpet Pitcher Plant; Blackwater SF, FL

Brunswick beauty x venosa All of the seedlings look like brunswick beauty, and they're very vigorous.

Gunung Jerai, Kedah, Malaysia.

 

Nepenthes albomarginata T. Lobb ex Lindl. Nepentheceae. CN: [Malay - generically referred to as Periuk kera], Pitcher plant. Distribution - Sumatera, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo. In Peninsular Malaysia restricted in the hill and mountains in the west coasts states - common on Penang Hill, Gunung Jerai, Kedah, Gunung Ledang, Johor, Gunung Bubu, Perak. Slender terrestrial climber up to ca 2 (-10) m with a distinctive white band on the pitcher. N. albomarginata is notable for specializing in luring and trapping termites. This specialization to a single prey taxon is unique amongst carnivorous plants by luring the preys to feed the trichomes directly below the peristome.

 

Ref. and suggested reading:

FRIM Flora Database

Malayan Forest Records No. 40 Vol. 3

www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?431409

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes_albomarginata

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes

aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/88/2/307.full.pdf

Flower heads of the insectivorous Pitcher Plants.

In addition to formal gardens, tropicals and succulents are cultivated in the greenhouse.

Sarracenia hybrid registered by Karen Oudean. More information here: www.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/Species/v38n2p56_58.html

Newly opened pitcher is much lighter and brighter than when older.

SW Oregon. this is a really nutrient poor habitat. It's essentially pure rock with a thin layer of dead grass as a substrate. A spring feeds this seep filled with cobra plants.

Rinard Orchid Greenhouse

Ball State University

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