Hooker's Pitcher Plant

Таксономи

Гэр бүл:	Nepenthaceae
Төрөл:	Nepenthes
Захиалга:	Caryophyllales

Тойм

Nepenthes × hookeriana is a common natural hybrid between N. ampullaria and N. rafflesiana. It grows wild in the lowlands of Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Sumatra, wherever its two parents grow together.

Nepenthes × hookeriana is a lowland climber. Its leaves are glossy and leathery, arranged spirally along the stem, with smooth margins, and each leaf tip is modified into a pitcher. The pitchers have a wide peristome and an oval lid held upright or angled upwards. Their color ranges from green with red spots to dark red with green spots, and they grow larger and more colorful in bright light than in filtered light.

The plant was originally described as a species and was long assumed, from its appearance, to be a hybrid of N. ampullaria and N. rafflesiana. A 2012 study using DNA markers on 'spotted' and 'green' variants from Central Kalimantan supported that hybrid origin and found the plants genetically closer to N. rafflesiana than to N. ampullaria.

Like its parents it generally grows in recently disturbed clearings.

Газарзүйн мэдээлэл

Төрөлх бүс нутаг: Lowlands of Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Sumatra, and nearby islands such as Natuna

Уур амьсгалын бүсүүд: Tropical lowland; grown under glass outside the tropics

Lowland tropical areas where the ranges of N. ampullaria and N. rafflesiana overlap. Like its parent species, it usually grows in recently disturbed clearings.

Физик шинж чанар

Насанд хүрсэн хэмжээ: Climbing plant; pitcher size is not given in the cited sources

Өсөлтийн хурд: Moderate

Хавхын төрөл: Pitfall Trap

Each leaf tip ends in a watertight pitcher that catches insects. The wide, ribbed peristome helps retain prey and guide it inside, and the slippery walls make escape very difficult. The lid carries nectar glands that attract prey; in this hybrid it is held upright or angled up, rather than over the mouth.

Арчилгааны гарын авлага

Гэрлийн шаардлага

Bright light. Singapore's National Parks Board lists it for full sun, and its pitchers are larger and more colorful in bright light than in filtered light. Under glass, bright diffuse light works well.

Bright light year round өдөр бүр

Усны шаардлага

Төрөл: Purified water (distilled, reverse osmosis or rain) is safest

Арга: Keep it well watered from above and let the excess drain. Plants left standing in trays often develop dwarfed root systems.

Давтамж: Generously; keep the mix constantly moist

Чийгшил: High: at least 60%, ideally near 90%

Хөрс

A 50:50 mix of long-fiber sphagnum moss and perlite is a good general starting point. Check the roots after about a year and change the mix if they are not spreading through it.

pH: Acidic (sphagnum based)

Температур

Зун: Days 86-93°F (30-34°C), nights 14°F (8°C) cooler

Өвөл: Same as summer (lowland hybrid)

Хооллох

Давтамж: Only if no insects are caught; avoid regular fertilizing

Regular fertilizing inhibits pitcher production. If the plant catches no insects, feed the pitchers tiny dabs of a paste made from powdered fish food and a little water.

Тархалт

Арга зүй: Stem cuttings with about two leaves each, leaves trimmed to about a third, kept in very high humidity; roots usually form in about a month. Seed needs a male and a female plant flowering at the same time.

Хэцүү байдал: Moderate

Эхлэгчдэд зориулсан зөвлөмжүүд

Give it plenty of light, warmth, humidity and water, and do not fertilize the soil regularly. Bright light brings out the best pitcher color.

Алдааг олж засварлах

Few or no new pitchers: too little humidity or light, or too much fertilizer. Small, pale pitchers: move to brighter light. Weak root system: the pot has been standing in water.

Өсөн нэмэгдэж буй зөвлөмжүүд

Keep lowland temperatures General

As a lowland plant it grows best with days around 30-34°C (86-93°F) and nights about 8°C (14°F) cooler, at high humidity.

Go easy on fertilizer Troubleshooting

Regular fertilizing inhibits pitcher production. If insects are scarce, feed a tiny dab of moistened powdered fish food into a pitcher instead.

Light brings out the color General

Pitchers of N. × hookeriana are larger and more colorful in bright light than in filtered light.

Сонирхолтой баримтууд

It is named after Joseph Dalton Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from 1865 to 1885.
It is a relatively common natural hybrid throughout the lowlands of Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Sumatra.
DNA markers show it is genetically closer to its N. rafflesiana parent.
Pitchers range from green with red spots to dark red with green spots.
Singapore's National Parks Board lists it as a native hybrid.

Сүүлчийн түүх

The name Nepenthes hookeriana, used by the Veitch nurseries, was published for this plant as a species by Maxwell T. Masters in The Gardeners' Chronicle in 1881, named in honour of Joseph Dalton Hooker. An elongated form was named N. hookeri var. elongata in 1877 and N. hookeriana f. elongata in 1879. Odoardo Beccari treated it in 1886 as a variety of N. rafflesiana.

Later botanists recognized it as a natural hybrid of N. ampullaria and N. rafflesiana, which is why the name is now written with the multiplication sign. In 2012 Kusumadewi Sri Yulita and Muhammad Mansur confirmed the hybrid origin with RAPD and ISSR DNA markers.

Эх сурвалж

Жишээ асуултууд

Bright light. Singapore's National Parks Board lists it for full sun, and its pitchers are larger and more colorful in bright light than in filtered light. Under glass, bright diffuse light works well. Aim for about Bright light year round of light a day.

Purified water (distilled, reverse osmosis or rain) is safest. Keep it well watered from above and let the excess drain. Plants left standing in trays often develop dwarfed root systems.

A 50:50 mix of long-fiber sphagnum moss and perlite is a good general starting point. Check the roots after about a year and change the mix if they are not spreading through it. Soil pH: Acidic (sphagnum based).

Энэ нь унтах шаардлагагүй. Зүүн дулаан: Same as summer (lowland hybrid).

Regular fertilizing inhibits pitcher production. If the plant catches no insects, feed the pitchers tiny dabs of a paste made from powdered fish food and a little water. Хичнээн их: Only if no insects are caught; avoid regular fertilizing.

Lowlands of Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Sumatra, and nearby islands such as Natuna. Lowland tropical areas where the ranges of N. ampullaria and N. rafflesiana overlap.

Stem cuttings with about two leaves each, leaves trimmed to about a third, kept in very high humidity; roots usually form in about a month. Seed needs a male and a female plant flowering at the same time.

Few or no new pitchers: too little humidity or light, or too much fertilizer. Small, pale pitchers: move to brighter light. Weak root system: the pot has been standing in water.

Carnivoras sells Hooker's Pitcher Plant in Mexico. Энэ хуудсанд байгаа ургамлыг харна уу.

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Nepenthes x hookeriana

$250MXN

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