So it appears that the large plant that I was originally growing as
Nepenthes faizaliana was mislabeled. As it was getting larger, I noticed that it didn't look like any of the clones Malesiana Tropicals had released. The lid wasn't orbicular, among other things. A little snooping around on MT's price list and several Google Image searches later, it turned out that I had an
N. maxima from Borone, Sulawesi, collected at 300 masl (which would explain why it hates cool weather). I actually wasn't convinced that the plant was any sort of
N. maxima until recently (at one point I even thought MT could have an
N. faizaliana introgressed with Sarawak
N. fusca but that wouldn't explain all of its stranger traits); what really sold me was
this post on a Thai plant forum showing the spitting image of my plant as
N. maxima Borone and a photo of a juvenile from Borone on Tony Paroubek's gallery. One vendor I had talked to in the past said Malesiana sometimes makes these mistakes (like sending
N. burbidgeae x
edwardsiana as
N. burbidgeae). I will have to go back and edit my old posts to reflect this, but at least I picked up a real
N. faizaliana earlier this year
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<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/61904224@N05/19717632172/in/dateposted/" title="N. maxima Borone"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/453/19717632172_8492d201bc_z.jpg" width="427" height="640" alt="N. maxima Borone"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
(It's a nice plant, but not what I had paid for!)
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<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/61904224@N05/19536779898/in/dateposted/" title="N. bongso"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/268/19536779898_70254a8367_z.jpg" width="422" height="640" alt="N. bongso"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
N. bongso with peristome rolled back
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N. glandulifera -- this is the largest plant I've seen from the BE batch of seedlings (please don't correct me if I'm wrong)
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N. burkei -- new arrival
<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/61904224@N05/19771352932/in/dateposted/" title="N. ventricosa "Red""><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3702/19771352932_08ca988b84_z.jpg" width="427" height="640" alt="N. ventricosa "Red""></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
N. ventricosa "Red" is pretty different than my first
N. ventricosa, I can see why some people claim that the "Red" form is introgressed with "
N. alata" of some sort; this is also a new arrival
<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/61904224@N05/19590598330/in/dateposted/" title="N. burbidgeae x campanulata"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/506/19590598330_06f5bf1d18_z.jpg" width="640" height="427" alt="N. burbidgeae x campanulata"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I am not a huge fan of artificial hybrids but I had a moment of weakness over this cross:
N. burbidgeae x
campanulata