#nepenthes ampullaria

[plantswithhands]

A bunch of cool nepenthes are enjoying the spring sunlight

[homophyte]

well i took a crack at repotting the lettuce herself. id say it went pretty well! look at the big healthy roots (you can even see where they were just about to start growing out of the holes in the pot), and its already spreading out in the pot. god i havent posted pictures of it in a while but it got Really big.

the OTHER thing that happened today is. well you see what had happened was after i repotted it my mom thought we needed to do something relaxing and fun right. so we went to a plant store. and uhmmm.

okay so this is an N. ampullaria . im going to be so real we were about to leave and as i turned around to go i saw it under a shelf and the GASP i let out! its in not great shape, had some dead leaves and the pitchers are pretty clearly on their way out though not dead already, its quite floppy and clearly needs water. was ALSO in just regular goddamn soil, like the last one i got from that nursery (moe! in april! can you believe?)

but i depotted and it had these beautiful healthy roots you can see--all of that black mass is just roots, theres no soil left and just a little moss around the root ball. i cleaned it up, cutting off everything dead, and put it in nice sphagnum/perlite. heres the final product:

and a pitcher glamor shot (though theyre not very glamorous atm):

i had to put the hanging wires on the new pot because its a little top heavy, so theyre just temporarily holding it upright until i can make a moss pole (which i already needed to do to move moe out of the hanging basket for the same reason). this is really temporary--even for the babies, since theyre kinda crowded and will need to be spaced out some--because i need to find a different tray i can put it in too, but for now its a good setup. its sitting on a nice little stand i have where it should be getting enough humidity, plenty of sun during the day, and i gave it the water it desperately needed too.

fingers crossed it doenst go into shock too badly! this is far and away the worst condition a plants been when i took it home but i am confident this is fixable, especially with how good it looks now--it was at most a little beat up and thirsty, which i SHOULD have fixed. i hope. well see.

[qk-yuan]

this guy grew 2 children

ignore the dry moss i watered it just now dont worry about it haha

also i know growing nepenthes in no drainage pots is a bit taboo but this is literally my best growing guy rn...guessing its because ive become a chronic underwaterer

[saccharine222]

Wild carnivorous plants

Pinguicula moranensis, Nepenthes ampullaria, Dionaea muscipula, Drosera linearis

[dougdimmadodo]

Flask-Shaped Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes ampullaria)

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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[aquaplant]

One of my new prized possessions!

Nepenthes Lady Luck (N. ampullaria x ventricosa)

[phosminos]

Nepenthes Ampullaria x Aristolochioides, with its Nepenthes x Briggsiana brother behind it :)

[wenbochenphoto]

Nepenthes ampullaria in situ.

West Sumatra. 苹果猪笼草

#sumatranplant #carnivorousplant #nepenthesampullaria #猪笼草 #食虫植物

[emanuro]

Land vampire crab (Geosesarma sp., probably a new undescribed species) hiding into the pitcher of a Nepenthes ampullaria. Actual site kept hidden to prevent poaching for the market, but it was in Malaysia. #crab #geosesarma #malaysia #crustacea #conservation #science #picoftheday #macro #nepenthes #carnivorousplant @ilcp_photographers https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl4QPkOKPu2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rustandsky]

Today's study- Nepenthes ampullaria

A vegetaria Nepenthes, catching fallen foliage.

[homophyte]

alright i got a few days of big updates so we’re going quick quick quick

i switched out the trays lettuce and the new ampullaria were using and since then have added more marbles in the ampullarias tray

also i pruned back the dead pitchers which were starting to shrivel so yeah nothing good there + the dying leaves on the bottom. theoretically i didn’t HAVE to do that and for nepenthes it’s generally recommended to keep leaves on until they’re defo dead but i’m a little impatient PLUSSSS it’s got a new leaf coming so i want to maximize the resources going to that if possible. + new view of the babies on it!

also i got a bigger humidifier which is super great news! the little one is good but it primarily gives attention to the smallest neps and i wanna make sure moe and the ampullaria are taken care of especially since they’re both in somewhat fragile states w the ampullaria recovering and being recently repotted and now putting out all kinds of basal babies.

alsooooo i started using my artificial lights! the plan for now is to supplement 3 hours a day right at sunset and uhhh hope that’s good. i move lettuce out of there when they’re on so it still gets the decreased photoperiod for dormancy.

i still have yet to make moss poles to be able to move moe out of it’s hanging pot but honestly now i’m questioning if i have the space especially cause uhh

i got home from apple picking and my mom had bought me another sarracenia?????? its so gorgeous it’s some kind of leucophylla hybrid of unknown providence (possibly unique!) which is super fun PLUS it looks like there’s some sundews (routindifolia! i’ve been wanting to get my hands on these for a while i’ve had sundews before and they’re SO lovely) and something else? i think they MIGHT be utricularia (aka bladderworts, another bog carnivore) although i’m really not sure cause they’re tiny and don’t really match the pictures and i’ve never actually seen one in person before so IDK but this is really cool and exciting!!!

i have one single worry which is that there’s some spots on these pitchers but i suspect it may be a temperature/dormancy thing but idk. will keep an eye on for sure!

[crypto-botanist]

Nepenthes bicalcarata x ampullaria Some of these pitchers are soooo small that a housefly wouldn't even be able to squeeze inside 🔎🔎🔎

[princejacque]

Refs used: Galaxy background || Pose ft. first sketch of Nepenthes years ago I couldn't find a good tutorial on how to draw/color galaxy patterns in CSP, so I turned to good ol' NASA for help!

[wiki-taka]

Yet another #pitcherplant specimen. Another N. #ampullaria? These pitchers look like the ones that hang suspended from the plant unlike the other one I saw which look like its pitchers sit on the jungle floor. 📍#leekongchiannaturalhistorymuseum . . . #lkcnhm #nepenthes (at Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1-7rjRn3Fy/?igshid=1318i5ooqx996

[wyldeplantlife]

Nepenthes ampullaria

natural habitat

[wenbochenphoto]

#Nepenthes ampullaria is not rare but unique in its own way: it’s #detritivorous rather than carnivorous. The pitchers are there to collect leaf litters instead, that’s why the pitcher lid is so small.

#carnivorousplant #floraofsumatra #苹果猪笼草 #食虫植物 #食腐植物