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Nepenthes with underground pitchers
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 9:29 pm
by Z_Y
Not sure if you guys saw this news:
https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2022/06/n ... a.html?m=1
https://phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/8 ... ment/4/45/
It seems like a newly described species N. pudica produces underground pitchers to catch ants. The leaves supporting these pitchers are reduced and achlorophyllous.
Re: Nepenthes with underground pitchers
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 3:26 pm
by Nepenthes0260
So cool! Hope the trait passes over in cultivation.
Re: Nepenthes with underground pitchers
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 5:58 pm
by Carter
Wow! This is absolutely amazing, nepenthes adapting underground traps like utricularia.
Re: Nepenthes with underground pitchers
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:03 pm
by Nepenthes0260
One of the plants BCP sold of this species. So looks like it does translate to cultivation! Probably appreciates a very wide pot and a loose media mix, too.
Re: Nepenthes with underground pitchers
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 12:50 am
by septembersapphire21
I've recently heard of the underground Nep and I'm so excited to hear that the pitchers grow in the ground! Hopefully one day it can be grown in cultivation, I would like to grow one. Does anyone know if its a highland or lowland?
Re: Nepenthes with underground pitchers
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:37 am
by Camden
From what I’ve heard, lowland.
Re: Nepenthes with underground pitchers
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 2:23 am
by Nepenthes0260
Definitely lowland. If it's anything similar to its close relative N. hirsuta, it'll be a vigorous grower.