{"id":651,"date":"2025-12-22T12:31:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/?page_id=651"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:52:24","slug":"nepenthes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/nepenthes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepenthes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have quite a large collection of Nepenthes<\/em> that started off with mainly highland species and some lowland plants too. I have always had an interest Nepenthes<\/em> growing many different species from an early age. In the last few years I have built up my collection extensively.<\/p>\n

In 2007 I travelled to Borneo to search for Orchids and the indigenous pitcher plants of the genus Nepenthes<\/em>. There are about 170 species of these carnivorous plants in various sizes and colours. The number of hybrids is immense.<\/p>\n

Here are some photographs of Nepenthes<\/em> in my collection.<\/p>\n

A Nepenthes trap is a modified leaf. At an early stage of leaf growth the central mid-rib starts to extend past the end of the leaf and a swelling develops at the very end. Over a period of time from weeks to months, a trap inflates, the lid pops open and it is ready to attract its pray.<\/p>\n

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Nepenthes albomarginata red<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I have quite a large collection of Nepenthes that started off with mainly highland species and some lowland plants too. I have always had an interest Nepenthes growing many different species from an early age. In the last few years I have built up my collection extensively. In 2007 I travelled to Borneo to search […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-651","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebotanicalvines.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}