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Weird! I finally got one of these Neps and upon close inspection I see the leaf margins are somewhat serrated like a steak knife! I don't remember ever hearing about this, is this simply a trait of the seedlings or will this continue through the plants life?
A while back somebody reported the same thing, except they got their nep at lowe's. It's weird because their exact words were "serrarted like a steak knife". Even though I have a hybrid with this nep, (Thanks Tony!
) I haven't noticed anything unusual about the leaves, besides the hair growing out of the leaf margins.
I was talking with Mike Catalani while looking at one of his many N. mirabilis and he said that most all of the N. mirabilis have a "serrated" edge or ruffled appearance. The typical, winged, red, echinostoma, all had this appearance when I was looking at them.
Yeah he had a formidable sized N. mirabilis "winged" in which the leafes looked like a giant leaf steak knife.
I minght be able to get my scanner fired up sometime this week to scan the pic I took of it....time is limited with work but I might be able to squeeze it in.
Wow! That'll be interesting - giant green steaknives! I wonder why no books seem to mention this, maybe I just didn't notice in the texts?
If you don't get the photo up it's no big deal, I'm just glad to know what to expect from this plant . A Nep I always considered kinda "boring", at least in comparison to my favorites!
Currently N. mirabilis is the only Nepenthes species which exhibits fimbriate leaves. So if a species is showing this characteristic then it keys out as N. mirabilis. However, it is not evident 100% of the time so the lack of fimbriate leaves does not preclude a plant from N. mirabilis designation.
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