Fanged Pitcher Plant - Nepenthes bicalcarata, Lower Pitcher
The is the lower pitcher of the Fanged Pitcher Plant - Nepenthes bicalcarata found at the same place as previous Spotting. I had originally thought they were 2 different species of Pitcher Plant but now realized they are both the same and the shapes for Upper and Lower Pitchers are different.
''Nepenthes bicalcarata'' , also known as the Fanged Pitcher-Plant, is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to northwestern Borneo, Indonesia. It is a myrmecophyte noted for its mutualistic association with a species of ant, ''Camponotus schmitzi''. As an ant-fed plant it lacks many of the features that characterise the carnivorous syndrome in ''Nepenthes'', including viscoelastic and highly alkaline pitcher fluid, the waxy zone of the pitcher interior, and possibly even functional digestive enzymes.
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