Monday 24 October 2011

The largest pitcher plant from Borneo

Nepenthes rajah is the largest pitcher plant from Borneo island. It only grows in open space of the slope of Mt. Kinabalu & Mt. Tambuyukon.






Inflorescence.



The habitat: open area of a slope.

The mosquitoes larvae lives inside the pitcher.


This one is the natural cross hybrid species between N. rajah & N. villosa called Nepenthes x kinabaluensis.

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