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

[kentosaurs]

Hi

Wahhh......so nice the amps and the gracilis.Those amps which you say are big are indeed truly big.I've never seen N ampullaria uppers before but now i do.The N xtrichocarpa looks retarded lol not insulting anyone or anything but it just looks weird.Also the blood red N gracilis......blwah......Don't the neps get sunburn or anything????The last picture looks like N mirabilis var echinotsoma

Ken

[David]

That is the upper pitchers of N. xtrichocarpa, that's why it looked different. Very few plants have sunburn on their leaves. As you can see in the pictures their leaves are almost perfect.

Yaa, we were thinking of fooling you guys/gals here that the last picture of N. mirabilis was a echinostoma but the picture was not convincing enough.. haa, haa... Nevertheless, I like the thick broad peristome. All the picthers on the plants in that particular corner is all green.

[kentosaurs]

Hmmmm unfair lol neps which are grown in my balcony don't like direct sun because its already to acustom to its shaded conditions and then suddenly the sun direction changed and shine straight at my balcony.Well its nice to see people going to wild sites of neps and sharing them hehehheheehhehehe.

Ken

[Aliamyz]

Nice plants David.The ampullaria growing in direct sunlight or what?
Love those xTricocharpa but can't get it anywhere.
First time looking at a ampullaria's upper pitcher.

So sad too.Pitty those plants. >_<

[David]

Originally Posted by Aliamyz

The ampullaria growing in direct sunlight or what?

The entire amp plant is totally covered by other plants and ferns. Only the growing stems reach upwards out of the shade for sunlight. So if you are not familiar with Nep plants, you'll walk pass them without noticing them. It makes it even harder because amps do not usually have pitchers up in their vines. Occasionally some uppers, but that's it.

In this particular site, the vines travel horizontally under other weeds and ferns for a couple of meters long before they bend upwards out. Those pictures of their inflorescence are examples of the vines.

[Jonathan]

Hi Bro...

The heart broken trip picture is out... so sad the BIG amp is gone... and turned into some logging area... haiz...

But atlease we still have fun revisiting this great site ^^ anyway will be looking forward to be there again in near future...

Thank you very much bro for sharing those wonderful picture...

Regards
Jonathan

[caseyhoo]

Sad to hear that the site is replaced by road

[rsivertsen]

Wow! That's a sad sight to behold when a healthy stand of CPs, and possibly a unique form of N. ampullaria at that have been bull dozed into oblivion! I hope somebody managed to get some cuttings and/or seed from them before the site was destroyed!

The other shots of the red N. gracilis are stunning! I hope somebody has this in cultivation too by harvesting a few cuttings and/or seed. - Rich

[bactrus]

Hehe... you I know where you talk about. Stupid road widening project! Some CITES Red list animal also got bulldozed.