Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 21:42:15 +0100 From: Clarke Brunt <clarke@brunt.demon.co.uk> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg119$foo@default> Subject: Re: Identify this Nepenthes please
On 6 Jan 97 at 2:23, SCHLAUER@chemie.uni-wuerzburg wrote:
> > I've just uploaded a page with a picture of a Nepenthes on it. This
> > was one of several unrooted cuttings which Andreas Wistuba sent me
> > about a year ago. I managed to root 4 in total (not bad for a
> > beginner, and in the depths of Winter too), but this one is the most
> > notable so far, having soon developed these attractive pitchers.
>
> The picture is not very detailed but it looks as if the lid had an
> appendage on the lower surface at its distal end. This would indicate
> that you have _N. maxima_ or a hybrid or relative thereof.
Thanks for the reply Jan, also to Johannes and Christoph.
All three mention N. maxima in their replies, so it's looking fairly
promising. I've looked at the drawing of a lower pitcher in Slack's
book, and there is some similarity although mine only has upper
pitchers. I had to look up 'distal' to check what Jan was saying:
"remote from place of attachment", and yes, there is a downward
pointing spike at this end of the lid, also a glandular projection at
the other end. There is lots of nectar on the pitcher - on this
second projection, on the peristome, and in droplets on the outside
of the pitcher. I'm sure I could manage a better photo, but for now,
the old one is still at http://www.brunt.demon.co.uk/cp/nepenthes.html
Johannes also mentions N. fusca: Slack has a line drawing again quite
like mine, but the leaf on the drawing isn't similar (mine are oval,
with the leaf edges meeting the tendril at right-angles, rather than
tapering into it); and N. ovata which I haven't got a drawing of.
-- Clarke Brunt (clarke@brunt.demon.co.uk)
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