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Originally Posted by Aliamyz
Yes David,
Rajah is big because of it's enormously big tendril it produces.
If you ask me, i will tell that truncata is the biggest and more tolerant than rajah.
Rajah is a piece of rubbish compare to truncata( rajah lovers, don't get angry.)
Think it for your self and you'll understand..
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I thought we were talking about the size of the pitcher and not the comparison between the tendril. And if it is the comparison between species tendril, do you mean the length of it's tendril. If so, N. rajah's tendrils are longer than truncata.
Also it is not about whether the species is tolerant in cultivation. If you are talking about the ease of growing the plants in cultivation, then yes, truncata fair better. But we're talking about the size of it's pitchers.
Like what kentosaur said, N rajah also has a very wide pitcher compared to most neps because of that in the wild they can take in so much fluid and rainwater.
I guess you have the right to say what you want, even about a certain species being rubbish. But is N. rajah truly rubbish or it is because you could not grow it? Have you cultivated N. rajah before? Have you seen the actual plant in all its splendor and majesty in the wild? Whose fault is it that it could not grow well for you or generally in cultivation for most people? After all it has been taken from it's native growing conditions in the cool highlands and grown artificially in our homes with conditions way below it's requirements. It has to be our fault and not the plant being rubbish because it is the nature and he make up of that species to thrive in certain conditions an fail in others.