A garden's chronicle: Nepenthes carunculata var. robusta: a true highland species

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Welcome,
At the times of social networks, starting a blog might be considered old-fashioned in a way but this is pretty convenient to share in a same place all my obsessions and creations.
"Strange fruits" is mainly focused on carnivorous plants as it is my main center of interest at the moment. You will thus find infos on the plants I grow, my cultivation techniques, my travels, updates on my research and publications as a taxonomist, reports on CP meetings, CP books reviews and much more. You will also find a lot of stuff linked to literature, music, entomology and drawing. I do hope you will find here a couple of interesting things.
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François Sockhom Mey

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Nepenthes carunculata var. robusta: a true highland species

This is a plant I already introduced to you readers:
http://carnivorousockhom.blogspot.com/2010/11/nepenthes-carunculata-var-robusta.html

Like I stated in my previous post, this species truly enjoys typical highland conditions. When some plants lile Nepenthes tenuis and N. vogelii (intermediate plants) clearly slow down in my highland growing area, N. carunculata var. robusta seems to thrive. It seldom produces more than three pitchers at once but they are quite spectacular. The following pitcher has opened a few days ago and it is as big as the ones produces last years (see previous post). I really like the peristome when it's not folded yet, giving the plant a "veitchii look".