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While tidying up my grow area, I chanced upon this lowii-life character and his new partner in crime, suspiciously lurking amongst the Nepenthes pots.



Before they were gathered up and held in the cooler overnight, I was able to get a couple of mugshots of these culprits.


dvg

love them,want one,cool hairy lids

Beautiful plant, really nice colour

Gorgeous as usual dvg. That's a crazy looking top on the pitcher.

Hi dvg.
arnt they the best plants , there just fantastic plants , yours is looking very healthy too ,got several of them one is just about to open its first adult pitcher , the true toilet bowl ones , have you ever seen the White extrusion they put out on the underside of the lid , its weird ,if you want to see it and it explanation let me know
nice job
J

snapperhead51 wrote: White extrusion they put out on the underside of the lid ,
J

Exudate is what it is called

Daren

that is its name, but I carnt put it Exudates from under the lid and extrudes is probably the wrong term , it manufactures the Exudate to attract birds and rodents to drop the wast (Poo) in to the pitchers as they feed on the exudate , which helps with nutrients for the plant , a friend a professor of chemistry has done an annalist on the exudate , he said it was made up of fats and sugars and will publish a paper on it soon hopefully this year !! tried to put a picture of the pitcher with exudate he got it from but its to large to put in here its very impressive with large amounts of exudate under the lid .

Very nice plants Master DVG!

hb

Thanks for the comments guys,

Snapperhead51, I'd love to see some pics of your just about to open lowii uppers.

And I've heard that the white gooey thing-a-ma-jiggy substance produced on the underside of the lids, actually tastes a bit like lemon sherbet.

But it looks like I'm still a few years off from doing that taste test with my plant.

dvg

Hehe...what a pretty nepenthes!

Thanks Pickles6.

dvg

Nice N. lowii! Now lets see upper pitchers.