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Nepenthes companion plants??

Hey all, I just posted this on proboards, but I figured I'd give it a shot here too: I've had this idea for a while and I'm now really itching to follow through with it: Do any of you know where I could find some companion plants that would be found growing in a HL nepenthes environment? I found this website that listed a lot of different flora from Mount Kinabalu thats pretty neat and gave me a lot of ideas: phytophoto.com/ClientGallery/Kinabalu/ <<<This site is worth checking out regardless, as it has some wonderful photos of nepenthes habitat and nepenthes themselves. It really gives you an idea of what the climate/environment is like where our beloved carnivores hail from.

If anyone has any kind of cool companion plant I'd love to buy/trade for one. How cool would it be to have your nepenthes growing side by side with the plants that they would in nature?? My main goal would be to train a (maybe rhododendron) bush in a bonsai style and have a somewhat smaller species of nepenthes (maybe muluensis or tentaculata) vining in the bush. It would create a really cool display and something about the plants both growing as they would be found in the wild is really interesting and cool to me.

A few species of plants that I picked out from the site I've listed below. The first two in my opinion would be the most interesting for what I have in mind, but all of them would be pretty cool to grow.

Rhododendron ericoides <<****** My main interest!!
Schima brevifolia <<<***
Dacrydium gibbsiae
Leptospermum recurvum
Styphelia suaveolens
Rhododendron fallacianum
Rhododendron stenophyllum
Drimys piperita
phyllocladus hypophyllus

Really most kinds of Vireya Rhododendron (or Malaysian Rhododendrons) would be a fun subject.

I found this website that has a price list that includes a few Vireya Rhododendrons: rhodygarden.org/cms/shop/order-plantsseeds/ But I'd still be curious to find a few more sources. This website offers a plant called Rhododendron lowii (which happens to be from Kinabalu) which I thought was cool/funny.
Also: www.bovees.com/species.html

Anyway, if anyone has other leads, holla at me! Thanks,

Greg


Read more: http://pitcherplants.proboards.com/thread/12293/nepenthes-companion-plants#ixzz2d8GgwiPI
 
Thanks for the link to the site, I dont see the lowii though.
 
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