intermediate highland neps

[Robert]

found above 1000m and the red form seem very common at certain location. The leaves are longer and pitchers are tubby than their lowland cousin.

red form


some upper pitchers loss their red




some zones overgrown with sphagnum moss and ground so soggy but they thrive well, this one was growing by roadside squeezed inbetween a monsoon drain. Note the monsoon drain are covered with sphg.moss.





a matured flowers bearing female plant overgrown and vining among the tall shrubs



another interesting and common ones was stenophylla. Sharing the same habitat as reinwardtiana. Note the thick carpet of sphagnum moss.




growing by the sides of all-weather road




a flowering male



a relatively uncommon nature hybrid-possibly stenophylla x reinwardtiana. The leaves resembled steno., and young
pitchers at young stage are hard to differentiate between steno, unless fully developed as in the followings.