Thanks for the detailed explaination. No doubt you have found something special.
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Originally Posted by Wong
Don't give up hope so soon mah.
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Haha... I never give up hope, it just that finding the red peristome amp or red amp is very very hard and remote now when more and more forest are clear away everyday as I speak.
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Anyway, I may be wrong too. Just wishing and hoping too much..  |
I understand the feeling Wong... I was pretty excited when I came across what I though would be the red lip
N. ampullaria in southern Thailand....
but upon further observations and investigation, I realized that the pink reddish coloration are affected by environmental factor such as intensity of light and not genetic related (red or maroon in normal light level)
. Here's the 2 pics I posted before for comparison....
Pink reddish pitcher retain the coloration
IF the pitchers were buried under leaves litter... I have to clear away the dry leaves to see the basal pitchers.
The same vareity of
N. ampullaria with pitchers develop exposed (not covered). You can clearly see the peristome is dark brown colour.
These
N. ampullaria were found growing under bamboo forest, if you been to one of these forest, you'll know how
heavily shaded it'll be. The light level it's like dusk when you're in these forest even it's in the middle of the day...
I have also came across reddish
N. x trichocarpa basals developed away from sunlight... very attractive
but further observations on the exposed pitcher reveal that it'll became regular spotted green pitcher as well.
