My two year Old N. Merilliana from BE

[dirtbiketina]

Just recently put out a basal I'm so excited i didnt take a pic of the basil but if you look closely inside the leaves near the base you can see the basal

[hcarlton]

Nice plant, and good size pitchers! Are the thinner, hipped pitchers normal for this plant at young ages?

[dirtbiketina]

Hey hcarlton, yea i got this plant when it was very tiny like 6inches and its grown drastically for me and it now has a basal that will produce even larger pitchers

[dirtbiketina]

ok i was questioning this myself before it was actually confirmed by someone else that my N. merilliana isn't n. merilliana, Its exactly what i thought, N. merilliana x alata.. love how you pay the price for n. merriliana and get a hybrid of. Kind of annoying really.. the origin was def BE obtained from pet fly trap!! how many plants are they gonna really that are not what they say they are???

[vividrays84]

That's annoying! Maybe BE shouldn't even try labeling there plants.

[vividrays84]

Stick with Ep!! Can never go wrong!!

[whimgrinder]

Perhaps you shouldn't make assumptions about the problem being BE's. Maybe the merchant who sold it mislabeled it.

[dirtbiketina]

whimgrinder ,everything is an assumption without fact. I understand it can be a mislabeled plant but this has been to much a problem with various plants from where ever they are from. Yes i am disappointed with what i thought i had, and at the time i know he only had a few plants of n. merrilliana for sale, which i thought was pretty rare so i grabbed one quick.. he didn't offer any N. merrilliana x alata and doesn't offer it currently, so why would it be mis labeled? as merrilliana-BE.. a rare species like that, thats the confusion? and question.