Highland Tank Updates

Nepenthes lowii
Drosera graomogolensis

In the post-holiday sales, I picked up a Nepenthes lowii for relatively cheap, along with a Drosera graomogolensis. I had been looking for a few Drosera that grow with Heliamphora to add to my Heliamphora tank. I'm hoping to acquire a few more Tepui-dwelling Drosera for my Heli tank over the next few years.

Nepenthes lowii

The Nepenthes lowii is small, but healthy. It shipped well, despite the winter weather, and I don't think I'll see much of a setback, but this is such a slow growing species that it's still too soon to tell. I'm hoping that I see mature, upper pitchers within the next decade, but I'll have to wait and see.

Nepenthes lowii
Drosera graomogolensis

I am liking the dark red pitchers on the plant. They're quite attractive.

Nepenthes lowii

Such a great species! It's too bad that it's so rare in cultivation at the moment. Hopefully, some lab TCs some more, and it'll become common again.

Nepenthes (lowii x veitchii) x burbidgeae

In other news, a Nepenthes (lowii x veitchii) x burbidgeae is opening a new pitcher. It's such a fantastic hybrid, I'm really glad that it's happy in my conditions. (You can see an open pitcher here).

Nepenthes aristolochioides hybrid

I also have some new, small pitchers coming off the basal growths on a few of my Nepenthes aristolochoides hybrids. Unfortunately, I dropped the tags, so I'm not sure which is which, right now. Either way, I'm happy that it's producing pitchers again. Like so many other TCed aristo hybrids, mine became stunted and had abnormal growth before the growing point died and some basals started growing. I'm hoping that whatever the issue was is now resolved and I'll get some regular pitchers again.