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unusual facts about Pitcher plant


Newfoundland one cent

The new reverse would feature the Pitcher plant, a plant very native to Newfoundland, although many felt that the coin was too small and the plant had an unnatural look.


International Carnivorous Plant Society

With only an estimated 15 plants remaining in the wild as of 1995, Nepenthes clipeata is the most endangered of all known tropical pitcher plants.

Johannes Gottfried Hallier

In 1894, Hallier became the second European to climb Mount Kelam (after a certain Dr. Gürtler) and the first to collect specimens of the pitcher plant Nepenthes clipeata.

Kolopis River

An area adjacent to the upper Kolopis River is home to a number of pitcher plants of the genus Nepenthes, including N. edwardsiana, N. rajah, and N. villosa, as well as two natural hybrids involving these species (N. × harryana and N. × kinabaluensis).

Nepenthes epiphytica

Nepenthes epiphytica is a tropical pitcher plant known only from the Berau and East Kutai Regencies of East Kalimantan, Borneo, where it grows at an elevation of around 1000 m above sea level.


see also

H. glabra

Heliamphora heterodoxa, a marsh pitcher plant species native to Gran Sabana and the plateau of the Ptari-Tepui in Venezuela

N. alba

Nepenthes alba, a tropical pitcher plant species endemic to Peninsular Malaysia

N. mollis

Nepenthes mollis, the velvet pitcher-plant, a tropical pitcher plant species native to Kalimantan, Borneo

S. flava

Sarracenia flava, the Yellow pitcher plant, a carnivorous plant species found from Alabama to South Carolina in the United States

S. rubra

Sarracenia rubra, the sweet pitcher plant, a carnivorous plant species