A newly described species of giant pitcher plant is one of the biggest ever found, with leaves covered in fur the same colour ...
“It was amazing,” he said. Dr Alastair Robinson in a jungle in Sabah, Malaysia, with the newly identified tropical pitcher plant Nepenthes pongoides. Robinson, who as a boy was a fan of the ...
While trumpet pitcher plants, mentioned above, are native to North America, the tropical varieties (Nepenthes ... shares ...
There are more than 150 species of pitcher plant in the world. This new discovery, Nepenthes biak, only grows on the small island of Biak, off the north coast of Indonesian New Guinea. Martin ...
This discovery was published in the paper: “Sabah's hidden giant: Nepenthes pongoides (Nepenthaceae), a micro-endemic tropical pitcher plant from northern Borneo. Australian Journal of Botany 72 ...