Hello Nep nuts,
After looking at nearly every photo of Nepenthes sanguinea and Nepenthes alata in Bobz's photo gallery, I was left wondering; How many forms of sanguinea and alata are out there?! They vary so much, you'd think you could split all the variations into 20 new species!!
Why do they vary so much? What makes people think they are just variations, and not different species?
Examples:
Two Nepenthes alata. look at how different they look!
What keeps them as the same species?
Sanguinea varies even more. I have seen adult, pure green pitchers, and adult, pitch black pitchers
Size also varies too, i have seen adult sanguineas with 4 inch pitchers, and some with over 12 inch pitchers!
Please clear things up for me
After looking at nearly every photo of Nepenthes sanguinea and Nepenthes alata in Bobz's photo gallery, I was left wondering; How many forms of sanguinea and alata are out there?! They vary so much, you'd think you could split all the variations into 20 new species!!
Examples:
Two Nepenthes alata. look at how different they look!
What keeps them as the same species?
Sanguinea varies even more. I have seen adult, pure green pitchers, and adult, pitch black pitchers
Please clear things up for me