Pitcher plants of eastern Padawan area

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Today I went out with some photography friends to Padawan area to photograph Nepenthes reinwardtiana & others species of pitcher plant.


Hill paddy field :





The storage hut of paddy field:





Nepenthes reinwardtiana - green form.





Nepenthes reinwardtiana - red form.

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Inflorescence of Nepenthes reinwardtiana :





Nepenthes reinwardtiana :









A species of ant is eating the nectar on the under part of the lid. This ant can crawl around the pitcher without falling down.

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Cute little aerial pitcher of Nepenthes ampullaria.





Nepenthes mirabilis





A caterpillar is trying to escape from the slippery wax plates inside the pitcher. Few minutes later, this poor caterpillar fell down & drown to dead, few minutes later.....& became the food of this carnivorous plant.







Nepenthes x kuchingensis. (Natural cross hybrid between N. ampullaria & N. mirabilis.

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Nepenthes x trichocarpa (natural cross hybrid between N. ampullaria & N. gracilis)






Photographing pitcher plants on the slope of a hill: