Dear Trent,


This plant is definitely _N. kampotiana/anamensis_. I believe _N. thorelii_
has a shorter neck to the pitchers. Also, I think I noticed something else
that can help tell them apart. My two clones of _N. kampotiana/anamensis_
have thin, simple spurs; while the spurs on my _N. thorelii_, both the plant
from Jeff Shafer and the seedlings from Nong show complex spurs with 3 or 4
points, rarely are they simple and when they are simple they are thicker...


Sincerely,
Dave Evans


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-----Original Message-----
From: Michelle and Trent [mailto:flaneps@...]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 1:42 PM
To: dpevans@...
Subject: Photo of entire plant of N. kampotiana

The more we look at this plant, the more we think it might be an ugly N.
thorelii. We only have three greenhouse bred N. thorelii plants to compare,
and of course they look nothing like this N. kampotiana. Since this came
from the wild, it could have a mirabilis (or other species) as a great
grandparent.

The shape of the trap is not very distinctive. The tendril is very short
compared to our N. thorelii, the plant holds the trap very close to the tip
of the leaf.

A few more photos to come...

T & M