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Species from Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, South Carolina

Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park, Florida.

I am calling this a pitcher plant because that is what it most seems to resemble but I have never seen one before that has the rolled leaves like these ones did.

 

Seen at Broughtons Wildlife Education area near Marietta Ohio in late may 2015.

Carnivorous Plants Exhibit at The Conservatory of Flowers

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

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