New Hamata like species

[cp addict]

Rumours has it that a new Hamata look a like species with lots of hair has been released in Europe!

Does anybody know where i can get one?

Thanks

[chesara]

sweet looking plant but its going to cost ya thats for sure.I think BE released them not many and there small.

Cheers Julian

[bobble]

Any links to pictures of this yet?.

Bobble

[Jimmie Hansen]

I would like to know the name....

[SydneyNeps]

As far as I'm aware, it is hamata, I suspect it will be given a varietal or location name.

[ilex]

http://forumpc.celeonet.fr/forum/ftopic6490.php

really beatiful thing

[TwoTon]

As far as I'm aware, it is hamata, I suspect it will be given a varietal or location name.

Let's have a naming contest!

My entry: N. hamata var. "Mammoth Testes"

[chesara]

lets see N x Hamata "Furry sack"

[olly_k]

what is that strange variety of moss growing with the plant??

[Jimmie Hansen]

or just N.hamata var. Pilosus

[Stairs]

Just to clarify, it is of course Nepenthes hamata; Ch'ien Lee found it while climbing a different peak in Sulawesi to the one from which most cultivated plants originated. His original pictures are larger and far better, but I forget where they're posted.

[Treaqum1]

IF someone could find the original posting that would be great.

[Stairs]

Actually, I was mistaken, this is the only picture, but there's more explanation from Ch'ien himself in the thread in question, which you can find HERE. The only important text is pasted below - the remaining four pages of the thread in question are largely the ooh-aah responses you'd expect.

Hi All,

Thought people might be interested to see this stunning new variety of N. hamata which I recently photographed in Sulawesi. It comes from a mountain quite far away from the type locality of N. hamata and shows that this species has a good bit of geographical variation throughout its range.

Compared with the variety from Gunung Lumut (which is probably the source of all the plants currently in cultivation?), the pitchers of this new form are more robust and entirely red with a dense coating of rusty brown hairs. Also, the bristles on the lid are not as numerous nor branched. In all other vegetative respects it matches N. hamata very well.

Best regards,

Ch'ien

and:

Hi Joachim,

An interesting point, however I think the reason for this belief is due to the great difference in the upper and lower pitchers of this species. Although Turnbull & Middleton cited the specimen Kurata used in his description, they used a specimen of their own collection from the same mountain for the type of N. hamata. Kurata's material (Eyma 3572) consisted only of upper pitchers and these showed the unusual long-clawed peristome. T & M's description included the lower pitchers and noted their similarity with N. tentaculata. For those who have seen the plants in the wild or been able to grow them to flowering size, it is readily apparent that the tentaculata-like lower pitchers and the long green upper pitchers with the clawed peristome belong to the same plant. Although it is certainly possible that N. hamata occasionally hybridizes with N. tentaculata, I haven't yet seen any plants in the wild which might represent this cross.

The red hairy plant in the photograph merely represents a geographical variant of N. hamata, and it does NOT occur at the type locality (sorry, not revealing any localities for now). The plants in this population appear to have very little variation, although peristome color is occasionally yellowish-green between the teeth. Upper pitchers of this variety are generally orange in color and although they do have a nicely toothed peristome, the claws are not as long as the G. Lumut variety.

The picture was taken with a Nikon D70, Nikkor Micro 60mm, and tripod.

Best regards,

Ch'ien

[Treaqum1]

Thanks Stairs