Nepenthes pervillei In Situ.

[kinabalu]

Hello

I've forgotten to post here a report (Most of you must know it now i imagine.) i have done in 2006 to Mahé with the pervillei. Maybe the most amazing nepenthes i've seen.


Here it is,

Enjoy


Sans souci road....






A lower pitcher under trees......


Copolia area......












"3 frères" area.....








The flowers......... different as the nepenthes in general. ( Similar as the Madagascariensis nepenthes, which i'll maybe see next year. )


Kinabalu
Jacques Besnard.

[unclemasa]

I am particularly intrigued by the rosette growth pattern and inflorescence exhibited by this species.

I have, in batches of hybrids, occasionally encountered an anomalous plant that will exhibit this sort of growth pattern where you would not expect it. I have often wondered if this growth pattern is not the result of deeply recessed genes in the genus.

[sockhom]

N. pervillei is so different from the other species in so many ways that I sometimes wonder why taxonomists didn't keep the old Anurosperma genus.

One of my very favourite species.


François.

[rainforest]

The seed pods look almost fleshy-fruit-like. Curious if the seeds are still the same though.

M