N. x Dyeriana is a neat hybrid with the largest pitchers of the types that
are not too rare. N. merrilliana (available for sale from Bruce Bennett)
also has large pitchers but I suspect only on very old plants - a photo
of N. merrilliana in Kondo's book didn't look too impressive.
I also have some to sell for $10/rooted cutting:
N. x (mixta x mirabilis) - I'm not sure about N. x mixta parent - pitchers
are medium-size and green. Plant may have N. ampullaria as parent -
lids are widely reflexed, peristome looks like it curves inward,
leaves are fuzzy, and pitchers are short and fat.
N. x trichocarpa - Natural hybrid between N. gracilis and N. ampullaria.
Plant strongly favors N. gracilis parent.
N. x wrigleyana (kosobe) (?) - Plant arrived labelled N. x kosobe - the
species list says this is an N. alata pseudonym - this plant doesn't
look at all like an N. alata. I thought it looked like a photo of
N. x wrigleyana and I saw on another's list that he was growing a
N. x wrigleyana (kosobe), so that's what I call it now too. After
getting an N. maxima, I'm beginning to see some similarity with
N. maxima, so it may be an N. maxima hybrid - it has a little nub where
the N. maxima filiment is on the forward part of the underside of the lid.
Pitchers are not nearly as large as maxima though. I suspect this is a
Japanese hybrid with "kosobe" being a cultivar name (well, it sort of
sounds Japanese if you pronounce it koe-sobe-ee).
N. x lecouflei - Originally arrived as N. boissiense "rubra" - from
that knucklehead Marcel Lecoufle - he also sent me this same plant
labelled N. x Dyeriana and as N. kampotiana. Supposed to be a hybrid
involving N. thorelli, which is a small-growing plant sort of
gracilis-like. New leaves are purple. Doesn't pitcher too well
after stem grows over 30 cm.
I may have later N. x 'Superba' and N. x balfouriana (this may be the same
as N. x hookeriana "cultivated-type" - mouths of pitchers very wide - may
be N. northiana influence??).
I would prefer trades of CP or orchids. I'll take orders for 2 weeks and then
sell the rest to Glasshouse Works. Send e-mail when you send a check so I
can reserve your plants. Postage $5 extra per order or free if you buy 3
or more. Because of the time it takes for international shipments, it would
be too risky to send the plants outside the US. Plants are grown 4-6 months
after taking cuttings - plants should be producing their first pitchers soon.
I'll send them mid-April to avoid frost damage.