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Dear lol, you are wrong it is the rarest Nepenthes x ventrata
I'm joking of course.... I can't wait Nepenthes edwardsiana on the sale list of some nursery.... even if I'll be 80 years old...
I'll buy it.
By the way thanks for the beautiful pics: it is very useful to see pics of Nepenthes in nature, they give us the oppurtunity to pay attention to the habitat of our beloved plants... expecially for what concern the sun/shade exposition.
I would personally rather have a macrophylla than edwardsiana. I believe the former species gets quite a bit loarger. But, N. edwardsiana would be really great for hybridisation considering its pronounced teeth.
Iol,
guess what? I have right a Nepenthes Macrophylla!
What makes Edwarsiana su special is that no one can collect her since she is protected by law. And also,as you can see....she is very nice!
I wait that some pictures of the Nepenthes RAJAH are POSTED here!
Regarding the size of N. macrophylla and N. edwardsiana, both are extremely showy plants, but N. edwardsiana is no slouch in size either. Both are capable of producing large leafes and very larger pitchers.
According to Nepenthes of Borneo N. macrophylla can get 28 cm tall pitchers and 9 cm wide with 60 cm leaves and N. edwardsiana 50 cm tall pitchers and 15 cm wide with 30 cm leaves.
rajah pitchers are only considered "big" due to their sheer bulk. Pitcher height doesn't necessarily mean "size", since in terms of Nepenthes pitchers, volume is considered a far more important factor (IMO).
Also, Michael Catalani has recorded 21" pitchers from his truncata.
Cheers
Actualy, he said 21" "including the lid" . When you add the lid, you get a couple more inches than normal. However, on the front of his site, he said he's had 24" truncata pitchers from the bottom of the pitcher to the base of the lid. That just sounds rediculous!
My bad. Haven't visited that site in a while. 24" doesn't sound too ridiculous - I've seen and held (and cared for, only when they needed it) specimens throwing out pitchers approximately that size. The world of Nepenthes is absolutely magnificent, the reason we're so obsessed with them!
In the case of edwardsiana though, those dimensions would really be impressive, and there's no reason to doubt such facts, even if it's hard to believe. We'll just have to wait for the species to enter cultivation legally!
This is about the largest my truncata has ever gotten
Lookin at this being between 12" and 14", an 18" or 24" pitcher would be a primate killer! Seriously, that would be a major threat to any housepets. Imagine a lowii x truncata or macrophylla that large.... Fantastic!
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