parasite?

[caseyhoo]

Hi nep master, 1 of my viking x kuchingensis have patches as below. May I know it is parasite? When I press the black dot with nail, it seems like there is juicy thing come out from it. How to recover the plant from that?

Thanks you for any advice.

[tzestan]

While waiting for masters to response...

I thought those are nectar glands. My viking produces a few of those occassionally (viking trait??). Not that many though. Most of the juice droplets are colourless, some brown.

I guess they appear on new leaves. Could it be that your plant try to attract insects because nutrient starved?

[marcellocatalano]

Hello! Those are just nectar glands, nothing to be afraid of. That's a quite common feature in N. mirabilis, and so it is in the var. globosa. It's part of the strategy to attract insects.

[Vincent]

yeah, my nepenthes x Lady Pauline has those at the beginning of the leaf, and they make nectar.

[SirKristoff]

Yep just nectar glands, clogged ones more than likely....i see it often, on my plants and in other collections...kinda like a plant zit :P (Gross i know haha)

[Vincent]

eww..haha