N. ampullaria site revisited

[David]

Last weekend Jonathan, TS and I went to this amppularia site inbetween the northern states and Kuala Lumpur to revisit this site. This was where we found those huge amppullaria... picture below...



To our dismay, the entire site have been leveled and the trees bulldozed to make way for a road. This is the sad sight. My heart broke when I saw this. The amps here were the largest I've seen so far in person.







So we decided to go to another site a couple of kilometres away... Here's some picture to share...

N. xhookeriana


N. gracilis


N. ampullaria inflorescence


N. xtrichocarpa


N. gracilis uppers


More N. ampullaria inflorescence


A dark maroon plant of N. gracilis. This plant is growing under direct sunlight in an open space. Check out the new developing leaves in the second picture. Blood red! Simple beautiful.





N. ampullaria upper pitchers


Found a N. mirabilis with a thick peristome. Looks kinda like Angelina Jolie's lips but green colour...


Found Utric here. We did not know we were stepping on them. They're everywhere. Learnt a new thing that day. I was asking TS why my Utric don't seem to be very vigorous and does not spread over the whole pot. TS said that Utric do not like sandy media (I use a sandy mix for my utric). And he was right! Wwe only found utric growing on the wet media with no sand. Those areas with sand had no utric at all.

Here the picture... I'm the guilty one... that's my shoe print on the ground.


The traps of the utric at its roots


TS found a gracilis pitcher with two colours