Nepenthes
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Nepenthes is a genus of carnivorous plants, also known as tropical pitcher plants, or monkey cups, in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae. The genus includes about 170 species, and numerous natural and
N.macrophylla x lowii
Nepenthes Flower
Nepenthes mirabilis at the Periyar Tiger Reserve, in Southern Western Ghats of India
Nepenthes from Carolus Linnaeus's Species Plantarum of 1753
Nepenthes rajah
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Nepenthes rajah is a carnivorous pitcher plant species of the family Nepenthaceae. It is endemic to Mount Kinabalu and neighbouring Mount Tambuyukon in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Nepenthes rajah grows e
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…pitchers. This varied morphology also often makes identification of species difficult. Prey usually consists of insects, but the largest species (e.g. N. rajah and N. rafflesiana) may occasionally catch small vertebrates, such as "frogs, birds, and small mammals". Records of cultivated plants trapping small…
Nep rajah 2 flower
Mature plants with both lower and upper pitchers
The peltate leaf attachment
A terrestrial pitcher