Hello,
I've just seen this thread for the first time - thanks Cindy. When Tony first mentioned to me that the seedlings looked like pure amp I immediately removed it from our pricelist and checked out the seedlings, which were still very small. I saw some differences in the shape of the peristome from other pure N. amp raised from seed made at the same time but felt too that the differences may jut be natural variation within N. ampullaria. Now, it's on my to-do list for our next visit to the lowland nurseries later this month. Unfortunately, there are not many clones of this cross to look at, which makes it difficult.
I'm not saying this isn't a mistake, it could be. However, we are about to release N. x ampullaria spectablis. We have over 400 plants to compare, some of them large now and will shortly be publishing photos of them. They are enormously variable. Most of them are as you would expect but some of them nearly indistinguishable from N. spectablis. That is no mistake, it's a natural variation in the morphology of a hybrid that has a binomial (bell shaped) distribution that can sometimes be skewed heavily towards one or other parent.
What we need to do - and shall do - is create it again and see what happens. In the meantime, if I can draw any conclusions after my next nursery visit I will post the results.
Rob