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« Thread Started on Feb 1, 2007, 9:45pm » Hi guys,

I was at Sg. buloh today to check out what new plants they have for the Chinese New Year.

All nurseries seem to have only the usual N. xventrata and some small N. rafflesiana.

However, I found a nursery offering quite a few species of neps. They also have Sarra and VFTs. The nursery name is Hee Nursery.

Drive into sg. buloh nursery area, pass the new hospital and drive straight into the road where there are nurseries on your left and right. Before the small temple on your left there is a road turning left. There's where there are a lot of orchids for sale.

Turn in. The first nursery on your right is Hee Nursery. Below are the plants I found there:

- N. miranda (small/medium/giant size plants)
- N. rafflesiana (small pots)
- N. sanguinea (green)
- N. sanguinea (dark purple brown)
- N. xhookeriana
- N. ampullaria
- N. truncata
- N. xventrata
- N. ventricosa (big pot)

- VFT (typical green form)
- Sarracenia (whole plant seem to be green)
- S. purpurea

I think the truncata, ventricosa and rafflesiana are from Malesiana Tropicals. I think this is what Juliana said that MT plants will be available in nurseries in *****ular Malaysia.

The plants are going for about RM28-38 (small/midium pot) and depending on species, the price varies.

I was so tempted to buy a hookeriana but I already have one huge plant at home. Would not have the space for it. I ended up getting a N. sanguinea (purple/brown). It's a tissue culture plant.

The owner tells me that they do not sell wild collected plants but I think the ampularias are from the wild. All other plants look like tissue culture plants.

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« Reply #1 on Feb 2, 2007, 12:39am » Thanx David. Too bad, im not in kl
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« Reply #2 on Feb 2, 2007, 2:41pm » Great news. I was just looking for amps yesterday because TS told me he bought last time from OUG area. They do not stock them this year.

Will pay them Hee Nursery a visit soon. Thanks for sharing.
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« Reply #3 on Feb 3, 2007, 9:00am » Isaac, I must warn you, theri amps are very expensive. They're going for about RM100 for a huge pot I saw. It has a few plants in it.
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« Reply #4 on Feb 5, 2007, 10:46am »
Quote:Isaac, I must warn you, theri amps are very expensive. They're going for about RM100 for a huge pot I saw. It has a few plants in it.

Wow, that is really expensive. Probably CNY price. I will wait until after CNY to pay them a visit since I'll be going outstation, don't want to take the risk.
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« Reply #5 on Feb 5, 2007, 11:27am » Hmm.. i dont quite understand why amps are very expensive.. they are not one of the threatened neps species. perhaps their unique shape and beautiful basals?
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« Reply #6 on Feb 6, 2007, 6:36pm » Usually those that are sold with that price have many basel shoots in the pot and because of this, the whole media surface is filled with pitchers. A sight to behold.

I personally like them because of the shape of their pitchers and the many different variety of colours and colour combinations.

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« Reply #7 on Feb 6, 2007, 6:37pm » For me it is a really worth while species to collect
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« Reply #8 on Feb 6, 2007, 11:14pm » Ya, I personally like ampullaria a lot. Like what David said, the colour variation and combination, and the shape too, so cute. And they can grow quite big if the environment is right. But I think the basals formed is the main factor to 'lure' people to buy. Ooh, we are their prey too!
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« Reply #9 on Feb 6, 2007, 11:48pm » haha TS, neps dont only attract bugs but people too!
yeah, like David said, the variation is worth to collect. i personally think that the basals and the unique shape is the main attraction. Its just that sometimes i feel that it is a bit pricey. Hmm maybe its becos i cant afford to buy an RM200 amp
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« Reply #10 on Mar 3, 2007, 7:11pm » Was at Hee nursery today. The price seems to be higher even though it is after CNY. Truncata was going for RM 40...
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« Reply #11 on Mar 3, 2007, 10:27pm » How large was the truncata. Here it goes for RM18.00 small pot(3-4 leaves with pitchers)
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« Reply #12 on Mar 4, 2007, 11:25am »
Quote:How large was the truncata. Here it goes for RM18.00 small pot(3-4 leaves with pitchers)

The truncata was a little larger with 6-8 leaves, if I remember correctly...
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« Reply #13 on Mar 5, 2007, 1:45pm » I agree with you ruslan, Hee Garden seem to be selling them a little higher. But for the truncata, I think it is reasonable if you compare with MT's plants when they arrive. These plants are double the size of MT's plants when they arrive and they alrady have 1-3 pitchers. On top of that you get to choose.


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« Reply #14 on May 4, 2007, 10:06am » I have seen N. ampullaria in the wild. They even have clusters of pitchers not only at the base but hanging from 10 feet high as well. The jungle area also has plenty of N. gracilis ( they grow & climb up to 20 / 30 feet ), an unidentified form of N.albomaginata, N. hookeriana....

A trip to Genting Gunung Bunga Buah area also has fab highland pitcher plants growing on the roadside cliffs. This is before the actual trek. A sight to behold for those of you who have not seen wild highland nepenthes in all its glory before. The matured plants have foot long dark red or bronze pitchers, I don `t have my reference book at the moment to idnetify the variety but there are about 3 highland species there.

A friend & I are also trying to hunt for wild droseras in Peninsular. My kuching friend found d.burmannii over there & he says peninsular should have as well. The growing areas should be bright open area but damp. Hilly area.
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« Reply #15 on May 4, 2007, 11:48am » Try not to double post. Use the modify button in the up right corner of your post that's already there.
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« Reply #16 on Jun 4, 2007, 12:36am »
Hi all i'm here to post an update on hee nursery...

- N. miranda (small/medium/giant size plants)
- N. rafflesiana (small pots)
- N. sanguinea (green)
- N. sanguinea (dark purple brown)
- N. xhookeriana
- N. ampullaria
- N. truncata
- N. xventrata
- N. ventricosa (big pot)
- N. albomarginata

- VFT (typical green form)
- Sarracenia (whole plant seem to be green)
- S. purpurea

Take care and happy pitching all...

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« Reply #17 on Jun 4, 2007, 10:12am » Hi Jon,

Would you happen to know how much they are selling the hookeriana for?

Thanks for the update btw.

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« Reply #18 on Jun 5, 2007, 1:21am » Hi Isaac

They are selling it for 45 each.....

I bough 2 pot last month.... They are surely easy grower...

Take care now..... will update soon when there are new stock arrive...
i used to visit the nursery every weekends.... so hopefully i get to update when there are new stock arrive....

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« Reply #19 on Jun 5, 2007, 10:59am » By the way guys/gals! Have you all heard about the nurseries in Sg. Buloh? Liang was telling me last weekend that the Government has asked all of them to shift to another location in Subang. (Lucky Zak...). Is this true? Lousy laaa, now it will not be at my doorstep.

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« Reply #20 on Jun 5, 2007, 6:41pm » Actually it was already mentioned a long time ago when the Sg Buloh specialist Hospital came up. They were supposed to move before the Hospital was constructed but it never came to pass....so is this another round of rumors ?

Jonathan : ask your hee nursery fren for us plse ?
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« Reply #21 on Jun 5, 2007, 9:17pm »
Hi...

David... the albomarginata is going for rm 60.... it's kinda large plant.... there are large truncata too also going for rm 60 each... but i did not buy from them as i already have a small albo and truncata.... but anyway regarding the shiftment i really have no idea....

anyway if i get any news i'll let you guys know ya.... take care now....

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« Reply #22 on Jun 5, 2007, 10:31pm » Hi all,
Abt the Sg Buloh nurseries shifting, i also head abt the rumors. A fren of mine is from sg buloh and his parents own a nursery there. Actually the land where the nurseries are, is not their own property. They just 'tumpang' the government's land. My fren said, sooner or later they have to shift, but the location is not yet decided.
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« Reply #23 on Jun 6, 2007, 11:31am » well, if anyone next goes to sg buloh, plse ask for us.
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« Reply #24 on Jul 6, 2007, 6:45am » Yes, I have read articles from Star Newspaper which features some of the seasoned growers at Sg Buloh. They were asked to moved. I think the nego. is still going on. Not sure when is the actual day.
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« Reply #25 on Jul 25, 2007, 2:05pm » Just now, lunch time, went to Hee Nursery, my eyes is , especially on those Sara, they are nice!!! Unfortunately, my salary is not out yet... Else...

There is a lots of N. and Sara, sorry, Im not good in ID,

Nepenthes rafflesiana looks a like plant

S.flava, S. Purpurea

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Sara that Zak brought from there too, http://petpitcher.proboards61.com/index.....read=1175513329

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« Reply #26 on Jul 29, 2007, 12:31am » Guys/gals,

My turn to report. Today afternoon I went to the Sg buluh nurseries, was surprised at the sizes of the pitchers there, not many varieties, mainly the regular suspects, green amps, black albo, red speckled xhookeriana, brown speckled xhookeriana to name a few.

I found another nursery which has more Cps, it's located on the main road instead of turning left to Hee's, go straight on until you see a hindu temple. The nursery is on the right hand side of the road with a zink roof shack in front near the road. Don't know the name, this shop sells the Cps at very reasonable price, I ended up buying a red speckled xhookeriana (with red underside leaves) for only Rm20.

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« Reply #27 on Jul 30, 2007, 9:19am » Thanks Isaac. Will include your information in the archive section.
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« Reply #28 on Aug 21, 2007, 3:34pm » Updates: Just received a sms from Zakhren. He said Hee nursery has the following available:

- S. flava
- S. purpurea
- VFT red
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« Reply #29 on Aug 21, 2007, 8:20pm » Oh and normal flytraps and 2 other sarras too (I think hybrids), which I'll post pics when photobucket works.

Here you go~

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« Reply #30 on Aug 21, 2007, 9:08pm » Any kind soul out there willing to help a 'CP-craze' mad woman?

Anyone going to Sungai Buluh soon?

Can I convince any of you to buy for me some red VFT?

Are this Akai Ryu by any chance?


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« Reply #31 on Aug 23, 2007, 2:42am » I think they are akai ryu. They get all red. But they are being kept under shade right now so they are thatrting to go green, but the older leaves are more red. I'm not going back soon, but someone else should be~
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« Reply #32 on Aug 23, 2007, 9:09am » Err, I'm going but not so soon. Most probably on the weekend after Merdeka. By then the plants might not be in a very good shape. If I a can make it this Saturday, I'll give you a call ok. Will be going to Floria Putrajaya. Maybe can squeeze in some time before I go. Anyhow, I might find it in Floria Putrajaya too. You never know.


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« Reply #33 on Aug 27, 2007, 11:40pm » Hi guys,
I went to the wholesaler nursery isaacgoh mentioned. Really great Neps there, tempted to empty my wallet, but finally got only one pot of hookeriana and one pot of kuching squat red. And a t.ionantha . I'm going back there for round 2 next week.
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« Reply #34 on Aug 28, 2007, 11:48am » funky chips, cute little blue frog you have there in your profile.
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« Reply #35 on Aug 28, 2007, 6:33pm »
Quote:Guys/gals,

My turn to report. Today afternoon I went to the Sg buluh nurseries, was surprised at the sizes of the pitchers there, not many varieties, mainly the regular suspects, green amps, black albo, red speckled xhookeriana, brown speckled xhookeriana to name a few.

I found another nursery which has more Cps, it's located on the main road instead of turning left to Hee's, go straight on until you see a hindu temple. The nursery is on the right hand side of the road with a zink roof shack in front near the road. Don't know the name, this shop sells the Cps at very reasonable price, I ended up buying a red speckled xhookeriana (with red underside leaves) for only Rm20.

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« Reply #36 on Aug 29, 2007, 10:46am »
Hi Eric...

Yes that is the place... anyhow they does sell cheaper then other nursery in sg....

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« Reply #37 on Aug 29, 2007, 4:22pm »
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Yes that is the place... anyhow they does sell cheaper then other nursery in sg....

Regards Jonathan

Jonathan,

You found the place!! So you won't get ripped off anymore.

Do post update of new varieties if you find them.

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« Reply #38 on Sept 3, 2007, 4:27pm »

If below picture showed pitcher and the leaf color is dark purple. I saw quite of number of them are selling at Sg buloh around RM25.

Look like red squat or giant, I am not sure.
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« Reply #39 on Sept 11, 2007, 1:23pm » this is rafflesiana squat red i think.....we got it for rm15 ( or was it rm12, Zan ? ) at Camerons, 2 medium sized plants in one pot. it was a steal.
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« Reply #40 on Sept 11, 2007, 2:33pm » Today I took a detour during lunchtime down to Sg Buloh again, and got two pots of truncata and a bundle of T.ionantha cultivar. Will post a pic when I get it this evening for ID.
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« Reply #41 on Sept 11, 2007, 3:20pm » me thinks it`s a ionantha clump.....correct ah ? if yes, they`ll turn red when they flower, then more pups will come out & the mother plant will be quite rock steady still. the clump grows like that.
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« Reply #42 on Sept 11, 2007, 7:16pm » Yep, it keeps growing into a ball like a pom pom. One larger than a footie was selling for rm300. I thought it was a plastic decor with spikes at first glance
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« Reply #43 on Sept 11, 2007, 11:42pm » I saw that too funkychips. I was there last weekend. I literarry jamed on my brakes and immediately did a u-turn when I saw that. Could not believe my eyes. Jonathan was saying that that is a fake. They tie the ionathas on a ball cage of some sort. That make sense as looked too round and symatrical to be natural.

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« Reply #44 on Sept 12, 2007, 12:27am » Yup, was tempted but luckily didn't because also of the said price. I was a bit sceptical about it being hairy and easy to fall prey to rot. Anyhow I'm going back for round 3. Xenographica, here I come!!!
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« Reply #45 on Sept 12, 2007, 9:37am » the ball-like ionantha is real, it`s a clump form of the variety. andy hangs his many many clumps across the garden like festive Christmas deco, really awesome. i only got 3 clumps so can`t do much....

yep, the xerographica would be a better buy than the hairy tills which require max sun & have to be protected from rains otherwise they may lose their white fine hairs.....a bit difficult to maintain.
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« Reply #46 on Sept 12, 2007, 10:08am » No laa tarence. It is bigger than a football and is really symetrically round. Jon quitely dug into it and found some sort of cage thingy that the ionathas were attached to.
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« Reply #47 on Sept 12, 2007, 10:38am » Okay, didn`t see it meself but i`ve seen real naturally clumped ones which are quite huge.....not as big as a football laa tho.


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« Reply #48 on Sept 12, 2007, 2:07pm » kinda lausy lor, what the nursery people do to the ionatha to con us. But I must say it was still beautiful. Look a little artificial, but beautiful.


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« Reply #49 on Sept 12, 2007, 2:15pm » Like Donald Trump says ` It`s nothing personal, it`s just business`....heheh. whatever to attract business.
i know of someone who once bought really expensive tills to use as Chinese new year decoration for his carpark...he spent about rm2k.....i won`t say what happened to the tills after that laa....sad story. « Last Edit: Sept 12, 2007, 3:17pm by tarence »Link to Post - Back to Top 211.25.130.42 David
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« Reply #50 on Sept 12, 2007, 2:26pm » Waa lau wei!!! (sorry Lau, just an expression. Not calling you ) Spend RM2k just to decorate. Can tell me who so that I can ask if that person want to throw them away after that. If so I go collect from him/her.
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« Reply #51 on Sept 12, 2007, 3:19pm » Too late David...that was 2 years ago....most of the tills i guess would be history already.
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« Reply #52 on Sept 12, 2007, 4:10pm » and to think I just started my meagre collection not long ago....
well, money does buy everything
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« Reply #53 on Sept 13, 2007, 5:10pm » Hi tarence, what is the name of that hairy white tilly?? Is is tectorum fuzzy giant?? it cost US20 for one.
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« Reply #54 on Sept 13, 2007, 5:35pm » actually i didn`t get to see it so i`m not sure but tectorum FG is the only big hairy white till i know...the rest which i tried are smaller ones.
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« Reply #55 on Sept 13, 2007, 11:15pm » say, speaking of tills, where have all the stocks gone to?? i asked the owners and none of them can tell me when the next shipment is gonna come in . All I can see now are stricta, ionantha, xero, cyanea, juncea, usneoides, and the little two lonely tectorums. I couldn't find any CM and the others.
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« Reply #56 on Sept 14, 2007, 3:27pm »
Quote:say, speaking of tills, where have all the stocks gone to?? i asked the owners and none of them can tell me when the next shipment is gonna come in . All I can see now are stricta, ionantha, xero, cyanea, juncea, usneoides, and the little two lonely tectorums. I couldn't find any CM and the others.

Funkychips, which shop you visited at sg. buluh?
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« Reply #57 on Sept 14, 2007, 6:14pm » Hee Garden, Evergreen plantation, the little shack with more till variety and the wholesaler with lots of Neps and broms I forgot both their names already. In fact when I asked Hee Garden they told me Evergreen plants is cutting down on bringing in tills because not many people here are buying them and its expensive to bring in . Then they said all of the nurseries have got their new respective lands and will go their separate ways once the government gives the green light. I guess no choice but to wait on them to get anything.
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« Reply #58 on Dec 21, 2007, 5:57pm » Ok, in the past 1-2 weeks Clare and Sam from Singapore has contacted me asking about the status of the nurseries in Sg. Buloh. So, since I was on leave today, I decided to visit Sg. Buloh and "interview" the nurseries there to find out more about their move.

Ok, here's a simple map of Sg. buloh nurseries...



We will be entering the nursery area from the Sg. Buloh hospital side, ie. south of the map.

All the nurseries in area "A" has been demolished and cleared right up to the Hindu Temple. Construction is going on now. According to one person there it's a road. The nurseries have been moved to 2 new locations in Bukit Rahman Putra (near your place jonathan) and Subang. Could not find out the exact location. Some of them moved to other places on their own. The story behind it was that the land on which they have been operating for so long is actually govenment land and some of the nurseries were operated by illegals.

Area "B" nurseries are required to move out by Chinese New Year next year, ie. 7-8 February 2008. They would be placed in the 2 new locations mentioned above. However, some of them told me they are moving to their own place elsewhere.

It seems there was a mega sale some time in September this year as the nurseries wanted to clear their stocks before they move. Hmm, I did not know about that. What a waste.

As of now, the authorities have told those nurseries in area "C" that they need not move. So there will still be that small section of nursery in Sg. Buloh including Hee Nursery.
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« Reply #59 on Dec 29, 2007, 8:50pm » I just took a vacation to Kuala Lumpur and I made it down to Sg Buloh. I found two nurseries in particular with a large selection of pitcher plants. One of them is Hee nursery which is mentioned earlier on in this thread. They also have some saracenia, Venus flytrap's, and air plants. There is another nursery that is on the main road a little further down after the Hindu temple. They've got quite a lot of pitcher plants there, but no air plants.

I think that the prices of the pitcher plants are quite expensive, they can go from 75 to 150 ringgit for a pot of Miranda or Ventrata. I didn't see too much else, there was one bical and a few Vikings at Hee's. They were all going for at least 100 to 200 ringgit. There was also one black pitcher plant which appears to be a ramispina. It was very heat stressed though, the growing tip was curled like a pig's tail, and it had many black spots on it. I didn't ask the price of that one.

The second nursery after the Hindu Temple had a good buy, they are selling truncata, at a reasonable size, for 20 ringgit each. Besides that, they also have another type of pitcher plant where the pitcher is very narrow, it looks just like Miranda but it is much more narrow. I don't know what it is but they are selling it as if it is a Miranda. It's probably some other species and if you want to give that a try, I think those all the neps you can find at Sg. Buloh.

Other than that, you have to call the nursery up every time and check when the new stock comes in, according to the staff there, once new stock is in, the regular customers go down and buy everything on the same day and then there's nothing left except for the 50 pots of Miranda that each nursery has in the back.
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« Reply #60 on Dec 30, 2007, 10:35am » Hee nursery neps are a little more pricy compared to the rest. The plant that you saw with a narrower pitcher is probably a fusca hybrid. I was told by Lau before that if the stems have a little redish colouration, it is a fusca hybrid.

You were in KL and you did not visit 4Ze Plant nursery? You should have given Fauzi a call. He sells mainly neps. If you ever had the idea or dream of wanting to just be surrounded by Neps from top to bottom, left, righ, front and back, enter his nursery. Hee, hee, I had that dream and when I first entered his nursery, it was heaven and dream come true. He also carries some VFTs, Sarras and orchids.
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« Reply #61 on Jan 2, 2008, 9:14am » Just to update everyone, Jonathan received a call yesterday from "Sister" Nursery yesterday. They've got a few pots of Pings.

The same ones as those found in Cameron Highlands. The plant are quite huge according to the nursery, about 3 inches in diameter.

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