COLLECTORS ITEM 🌟 Nepenthes Lowii (Gunung Murud, Borneo) * Wistuba 📏 3-5cm > Exact plant pictured
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Description
On offer
- Special import from Wistuba - exotic plants
- Clone: 01
- Growing conditions: Highland
- Available either bareroot or potted, this is a once-off collectors item and you will receive the exact plant pictured - images of mature plants and pitchers are for display purposes only and are supplied by ©Wistuba - All rights are reserved
Seller description
- The legendary Nepenthes lowii! Certainly one of the most famous Nepenthes species. With absolutely unique, specialized upper pitchers, the species is not only visually captivating
- The shape of these high pitchers is also the basis for an absolutely fascinating mutualism. Between the bristles on the pitcher lid, N. lowii secretes a sugary substance. This serves as food for the tree squirrels Tupaia montana and leads to subsequent defecation of the animals. This feces serves as a nitrogen source for the Nepenthes lowii
- Lower pitchers of this species already show the bristles, but are not as extremely funnel-shaped as the uppers. The upper pitchers are highly variable and can bear diverse colors
- Nepenthes lowii is found on Mt. Kinabalu, Trusmadi, Murud and Mulu in Borneo at 1650-2600 m.a.s.l.
- N. lowii is a persistent grower under the right conditions, due to the slow growth it is recommended to start early with the species
- More rare locality of this species
