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 19th October 2006 - 15:05 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 904 Joined: 17th June 2004 From: Peterborough, UK Member No.: 1,070  |
While trying to get closer to a roosting Diabolical Nightjar (don't some birds have fantastic names? - it's also known as Satanic Nightjar) I found these little beauties - N. eymae as far as I can tell!
Look on the extreme left of the photo - there is a pitcher visible! 
An unopened trap: 
I love the angular shape of the pitchers. 
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19th October 2006 - 15:13 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 403 Joined: 16th September 2005 From: Germany Member No.: 1,764 |
Great pitchers :)
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19th October 2006 - 15:23 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 589 Joined: 8th August 2006 From: Kentucky, USA Member No.: 2,410 |
that doesnt look like eyame! wow...ive never seen somthing like it! we need an expert in here to state what it is!!
Alex |
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19th October 2006 - 15:45 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 554 Joined: 4th August 2003 From: Brisbane, Australia Member No.: 691 |
Stunning and to see them in the wild as well must have been such a high. Thanks for sharing.
Regards Neil |
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19th October 2006 - 16:20 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 188 Joined: 25th July 2005 From: Miami FL Member No.: 1,685 |
Thats a unique looking nepenthes. It may be a hybrid with N. maxima(if thats what the others in the previous posts were.) since it kind of shares the same coloring. Nice find!
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19th October 2006 - 16:52 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 869 Joined: 14th April 2003 From: Cardiff, S. Wales, UK Member No.: 341 |
Woah definetely best till last!
Love the second picture. So unusual. Thanks for sharing 
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19th October 2006 - 17:04 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,362 Joined: 3rd August 2005 From: Haubourdin (near Lille) Northern France Member No.: 1,702 |
Hello Jonathan
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You did a wonderful trip! Those late pictures are true gems. But i don't think they're eymae upper picthers either. I also suspect a hybrid involving Nepenthes maxima. Then again, i could be wrong. Friendly, François. |
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19th October 2006 - 20:12 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 814 Joined: 16th May 2003 From: Rome, Italy Member No.: 503 |
stunning pictures Jonathan
thanks for sharing giu |
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19th October 2006 - 21:22 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 418 Joined: 15th July 2003 From: Sweden Member No.: 653 |
Thanks for showing the wonderful photos (in all threads). My first thought was N. eymae as well, but from what I have seen the lid is much narrower on the upper pitchers on this species. Whatever it is, it has not only nice shape, but it is very colourful as well, more so than most uppers I have seen from the "N. maxima complex".
Regards, Christer |
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20th October 2006 - 07:18 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 904 Joined: 17th June 2004 From: Peterborough, UK Member No.: 1,070 |
Thanks for the input guys - N. maxima was growing very close to this plant, but I do wonder what that makes the other parent?
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20th October 2006 - 09:48 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 950 Joined: 20th February 2004 From: Harborne, Birmingham, UK Member No.: 923 |
Thanks for posting such fascinating photos.
Cheers, |
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20th October 2006 - 14:15 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 457 Joined: 14th April 2006 From: Adelaide, Australia Member No.: 2,125 |
This is a fantastic looking nep. I really like its pitchers. :) Nice one!
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| Guest_Sheila_* |
20th October 2006 - 23:06 PM
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Fantastic pictures.
It must have been difficult concentrating on your twitching with so many lovely neps about you. :) |
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28th October 2006 - 23:11 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 18th January 2006 From: Northeastern France Member No.: 1,956 |
Stunning ! No hamata around there ? :)
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28th October 2006 - 23:30 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 379 Joined: 16th December 2004 From: Milton Keynes, UK Member No.: 1,337 |
Absolutely stunning.
I posted my own thoughts about this plant over on the Nepenthes forum; I'm personally convinced there is no maxima involved at all at the direct parent level - there are too many characteristics on that plant which don't even express remnants of such parentage, let alone those of eymae (lid, leaves, stem etc.). Then again, I could be proven very, very wrong! ;) Cheers Amori |
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| Guest_Aidan_* |
29th October 2006 - 01:07 AM
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A lovely plant.
Nepenthes "Jungle Khazi" perhaps... 
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29th October 2006 - 09:52 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,362 Joined: 3rd August 2005 From: Haubourdin (near Lille) Northern France Member No.: 1,702 |
... or Jonathan might have discovered a new taxa?
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29th October 2006 - 14:12 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 904 Joined: 17th June 2004 From: Peterborough, UK Member No.: 1,070 |
Where did you post Kera? Would be interested in knowing anyone's thoughts on this plant. I take it that the first plant at least is N. maxima (prev threads)?
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29th October 2006 - 19:52 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 379 Joined: 16th December 2004 From: Milton Keynes, UK Member No.: 1,337 |
Hi Jonathan
I posted on the pitcherplant forums (http://www.pitcherplants.proboards34.com/index.cgi). I'm almost certain you have taken photographic evidence of a glabrata hybrid or an entirely new taxon. I went against a direct maxima parentage because the whole plant, including the pitcher appearances do not match. Here's why: 1) Leaves of maxima and eymae are strongly petiolate, whereas this plant's leaves are as sessile as can be and clasping. Had you taken photos of plants in their rosette stage and their pitchers, I could add more, had they been present. 2) Pitcher morphology: i) lid shape is orbicular as opposed to narrow, especially for aerial pitchers - lid shape defines the shape of the pitcher opening when it opens (take inermis, for example). In this case, the pitcher is fully inflated and the lid covers the mouth entirely; ii) lid underside is missing glandular crests, or even remnants thereof; iii) peristome isn't substantial enough to warrant it direct eymae and maxima parentage, even if they belong to aerial pitchers. I'm sure there's more I could say, but I'm limited on time for the moment so I'll leave it at that. As a final note, I believe this potential* taxon will be greatly sought after if and once it enters cultivation through legitimate methods - it is indeed endowed with very attractive upper pitchers! Cheers Amori * Thanks Aidan for pointing that out. It seems I've been using the term taxon incorrectly! 
This post has been edited by Amori: 10th February 2008 - 00:09 AM |
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29th October 2006 - 19:53 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 379 Joined: 16th December 2004 From: Milton Keynes, UK Member No.: 1,337 |
QUOTE (Aidan) A lovely plant.
Nepenthes "Jungle Khazi" perhaps... Remember Aidan, Nepenthes jamban has already taken the toilet title!
Cheers Amori |
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