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N. sanguinea

Are neps the same case as sundews, less light=bigger+greener
more light=smaller+redder??
I have an N. Sanguinea with a pitcher maybe 1/3 bigger than it's leaf. It's green with some red spots inside. Then I look at another pitcher, which is red (hehe, that one came with the plant when i ordered it.) and it's smaller.
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Is the sundew fact true?
 
Nepenthes grown in poor light won't have very colorful traps. Neps grown in very intense light have red petioles too. However I haven't noticed a major size difference.
 
Actually, good light gives you a better pitcher/leaf size ratio. If you have a pitcher larger than the leaf, it should be from being in good light.

Joe
 
Higher humidity will encourage larger traps,thats why it`s recomended to put live sphag under a developeing pitcher.:)
 
Btw. I`ve been wondering are nep leafs realy leafs or petioles?
Thanks,
 
You mean like flytraps?

JA
 
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Quote[/b] (pond boy @ April 19 2004,4:21)]Btw. I`ve been wondering are nep leafs realy leafs or petioles?
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Leaves and Petioles = same thing
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No they arent petioles are expanded leaf bases leafs are the actual leaf.
 
[b said:
Quote[/b] (pond boy @ April 23 2004,2:46)]No they arent petioles are expanded leaf bases leafs are the actual leaf.
uh oh... here comes tony to prove me wrong!
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I'm really learning alot from him
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What looks like a "leaf" as the average joe knows it on a Nep is technically the petiole, with the pitcher as the true leaf. A petiole is the "thingy that attatches the leaf to the tree/plant/whatever" and usually runs through the center of the leaf. (ie "main artery") I hope this makes sense in "layman's terms". (Please note all items in quotation marks were done in quotation fingers on liscensed agreement with Dr. Evil)
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I`m not tony! I`m Noah(not to be confused with Noah Elhardt)
 
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