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Nepenthes alba

Botanic Family
Nepenthaceae
Author
Ridley
Propagation
A.S.

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Geographical Habitats

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Climbing pitcher plant to 5m. Coriaceous leaves, rosette leaves to 60mm x 15mm with tendrils to 60mm long, leaves of climbing stem coriaceous to 90mm x 20mm with tendrils to 90mm long. Pitchers of seedling rosettes dark purle throughout to 50mm x 10mm with 2 wings to 2mm wide, greenish-white lower pitchers with dark purple flecks to 90mm x 20mm, ivory white upper pitchers sometimes with pink flecks or suffused with red pigment outside to 120mm x 30mm. Male racemes to 100mm long with bract to 5mm long, tepals 3.5mm x 2mm, female racemes.

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