Now it seems that with more purchases made and freebies received the shed and its small surrounding corners have started to get a little more and more ‘crowded’ each passing week. There are a few newcomers that are quite big and have taken quite a bit of space up in the shed. But nonetheless here’s what arrived over the past months, up until this week..
This is a strangely disproportioned plant. The main plant is small leaved, but pitchers are seemingly huge. The tendency for the pitchers to collect too much water has put them in severe danger of breaking at the tendrils (I suppose Mother Nature intended for her giant pitchers to sit on cushions of moss and not hanging suspended in mid air, especially if this happens to be a hybrid not found naturally in the wild). So here’s what I did that seems to be told by her in my head.The pitchers now sit together, randomly facing away from and towards each other.
This is claimed to be a variant of the thorelli x truncata ‘Red Clone Select’ sitting not far way from this counterpart. The differences that I could see is that this one has a wider more flared peristome than the latter, and is in many ways, simply tubbier. I have yet to see, since I’ve only recently gotten this plant, that the shape of the pitcher will change over time spent residing under my garden shed.
Note the differences. This variant has pitchers resembling truncata more, while other, thorelli. One has a striped peristome of two shades, the other plain red. Both plant variants, as I’ve been told by the seller, are from Exotica Plants. So it would seem fittingly interesting to have one of each and see how far along their differences can extend.
Luckily humans are not as flexibly diverse as this…or is it a good thing then? Only the end results will tell…
The three pitchers sitting in the pot look so cute together like that. Good idea!
Btw, I brought back several begonias from that nursery. And if you are already there at Ulu Yam Baru, must well drop by the two orchid farms there.
http://mygreenfinder.blogspot.com/search/label/Ulu%20Yam%20Baru
Happy gardening and shopping for plants!
Thanks Steph! This is a really hardy hybrid so if you could get hold of one it’s really worth the effort!!
Planning to head to Ukay Nursery first thing Sunday morning. Then beeline my way back to Batu Caves to Ulu Yam Baru. What kind of begonias are those? I’m looking for angelwing and thick stemmed varieties btw…
I bought one angelwing, dark brown colour from them 😉
Nice! Haven’t had time to visit the nursery yet. Will do so after CNY!! 😀
I have learned from my botany class that the pitchers are actually modified leaves! These are beautiful. thank you for sharing!