Re: Nepenthes habits

Ben Levin (benjinsl@astro.ocis.temple.edu)
Wed, 1 May 1996 22:20:37 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 1 May 1996 NPLUMMER@hg-basic1mail.hg.med.umich.edu wrote:

>
> The plant also seems to have two types of stem. One type has leaves set
> relatively close together, and the tendrils do not coil. The second
> type has leaves that are far apart and tendrils which coil. If they fail
> to wrap around something, the tendrils seem to die. When they do wrap
> (tightly) around a bamboo cane that I put in the pot, the tendrils form
> a pitcher that is indistinguishable from the ones on the non-coiling
> leaves. Am I imagining things, or do Nepenthes have climbing and
> non-climbing stems?
Could _this_ be why me gracilis hasn't been pitchering lately? A
N.mirabilis in the same terrarium is pitchering (pitchers not as large as
before I moved them to their present location).

Ben