Nepenthes rajah, Marai Parai Nepenthes Species PPE: P80FS2

PPE: P80FS2

We expect plants to achieve large size with cream

Villosa is prone to crown rot especially when young so the leaves must be kept dry

The cross produces large pitchers with wide peristomes but the aristo vertical mouth opening

The first photo is a plant in our collection from the same grex of seeds but not necessarily the same clone

Nepenthes rajah, Marai Parai Nepenthes Species PPE: P80FS2This enigmatic species is one of the most famous carnivorous plants. Nepenthes rajah grows on the slopes of Mt. Kinabalu and other neighboring mountains within Kinabalu National Park in Sabah, Malaysia on the island of Borneo. The leaves reach huge size and weve observed some to be over 4 feet long. The deep, red pitchers are one of the largest in the genus and have been fabled to eat monkeys and rats. Though its uncertain if the pitchers have evolved