> I must append, however that
> especially _N.maxima_ is extremely variable (to that extent that I cannot
> accept _N.eymai_=_N.infundibuliformis_ to be specifically distinct from it).
I just saw N. eymai in cultivation last week at California Carnivores.
(Peter D'Amato) The upper pitchers are very oddly shaped as a widely
flared funnel tapering to a very narrow point.
The inside surface of the pitcher is sticky rather than slippery.
The plant appears to catch prey as a passive flypaper rather than as a
pitfall-type trap. The very wide taper of the pitcher does not create
much of a catch basin for fluid.
To me, the upper pitchers were very different than any of the common
N.maxima that I have seen, although the lower pitchers were much more
conventional.
-- Rick