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This shows a picture of my very first Nepenthes. If you take a good look you'll see it still sitting in its terracotta pot. The terracotta pot is placed in a "bed" of sphagnum moss. I didn't keep it like this for a long time, the sphagnum moss began to rot. The idea was to keep the air around the plan moist. | |
This picture was taken a year later. It grew allot! If you take a good look at this picture you'll see basal shoots emerging. In the meanwhile I have cut the large plant and will have to start over (only with two plants now). |
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This is the very first Nepenthes I own. It's still alive, mind you I had to cut it down 2 times. | |
The plant is re-potted. It has grown in the wintertime. Lets hope it does as well as last summer! |
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This is the very first sign of a pitcher. Every pitcher starts like this, no matter how large it will grow in the future. |  |
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This picture shows a small pitcher. At ground level a Nepenthes always grows different pitchers then heigher up the stem. These so called "ground pitchers" usually have a sort of hairy steps on the front. These steps help ground dwelling insects to enter the trap. |  |
This picture shows that a pitcher opens at the very last moment, and that the rim is still green. |
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Here you can see a picture of a fully grown pitcher with all the characteristics of a upper pitcher. |  |
This is a close-up of the entrance of a pitcher. |
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Also a fully grown pitcher. |
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This picture shows the plant producing a sort of nectar. |  |
This nectar lures crawling as well as flying insects. In this case ants. |
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The ants were totally intoxicated, I could take a picture without them constantly on the move. |