A popular insectivorous perennial hybrid, Sarracenia x stevensii (pitcher plant) has tall, slender, reddish-pink pitchers. These plants need a bright light in a frost free position with a moist but well–drained, acidic growing medium.
Family: Typical Pitcher Plant Family (Nepenthaceae)
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern
Most species of pitcher plants are carnivorous, using jug-like, fluid-filled traps that protrude from their leaves to capture small animals and digest their bodies, absorbing the nutrients released (particularly nitrogen, which is needed to produce chlorophyll and which is scarce in the soil around them due to intense competition with other plants) across the trap's inner walls. The Flask-Shaped Pitcher Plant, however, is unusual among its relatives in that it is seemingly essentially a herbivorous plant - found in damp, dense forests, it grows as a woody vine that creeps along the ground or through the lower branches of larger plants and uses its unusually short, wide pitchers to catch leaves that fall down from the trees above it, digesting them to make use of the nitrogen and other nutrients they contain. Widely distributed across much of Brunai, Indonesia, New Guinea, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore and reportedly quite common in damp, humid environments throughout their range, members of this species are dioecious (meaning that each individual plant is either "male", producing pollen-producing flowers, or "female", producing pollen-receiving flowers that develop into seeds once pollinated,) and produce dense clusters of small, petal-less flowers relatively high in their "branches", typically far from their traps to avoid accidentally trapping pollinators. Once pollination has occurred, "female" flowers produce numerous tiny, lightweight, hair-like seeds which are carried away from their "mother" on the wind.
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Hello!! Potentially a super specific question, but what's the funniest/ most strange pitcher plant that you know of? :0
Since I actually don't know much about pitchers, I texted my friend whose Thing is tropical and carnivorous plants and particularly pitchers and especially Nepenthes.
His response was first: is that tumblr??? To which I responded "yes, and you recognized it so lose/lose"
But then he sent me this absolute monstrosity of a pitcher:
Why is it so fleshy? Why does it have little tentacles??
Meet Nepenthes mirabilis var. echinostoma, a variety of the common swamp pitcher plant or tropical pitcher plant that arose in Brunei and Sarawak. Nepenthes mirabilis is the most widespread species of Nepenthes and var. echinostoma is a GREAT example of the morphological plasticity present in the species across its range!
Also, these guys are totally edible which is great for me because I feel like if I don't eat them first they will find a way to eat me and I won't be able to crawl out because of their tiny little tentacles. (I love them, thank you for sending this ask!!)