Re: Help identifying Nepenthes

From: Steve (stevegordon@freeuk.com)
Date: Sun Aug 15 1999 - 10:32:57 PDT


Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 18:32:57 +0100
From: "Steve" <stevegordon@freeuk.com>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg2945$foo@default>
Subject: Re: Help identifying Nepenthes

Steve Clancy wrote:
>I have had an undentified species of Nepenthes for quite >a few years (at
>least 8). It lives in my air conditioned office and has >acclimated quite
>well. It produces lots of pitchers and it flowers about >once a year (male
>flowers).

>I got this as a cutting and have never been able to >identify it. A couple
>of years ago, I took it to a local CP meeting and those in >the know
>pronounced it "some type of hybrid."

Hi Steve,

Just to confuse matters :-) Have a look at the fifth photo' down on the
right
of the page below; it is a plant I got from a very reliable source as
Nepenthes ventricosa x maxima. Not as red as yours, but it can be if given
enough light.
http://www.stevegordon.freeuk.com/page2.html

Cheers,

Steve, UK.



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