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My newest "family member"!

Here are some pictures of my newest addition, my very first carnivorous plant! I'm such a total newbie with this, but so far so good!

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Nice ventrata!

Hey is that storm going to blow over your area too? I hear there's something nasty a brewin' over yonder in your neck of the woods.
 
I assure you you will have the plant for a long time, they are quite vigorous and easy to grow! Ventrata was my first CP as well.
 
Definitely N. x ventrata. N. alata doesn't have the little rim spikes on the peristome. It grows really fast.
 
Fairly certain it's a ventrata (the one uber common nep I still don't have), based on the larger-than-alata peristome. Alatas almost never have peristomes that wide, though it may be a 'Deroose Alata' (ventrata x alata). Healthy looking plant, though!
 
'Deroose Alata' (ventrata x alata).

gah....

The Deroose N. alata (which this is without a doubt, down to the white hanging basket and all!) is simply a N. Ventrata like all the rest. Someone somewhere years ago thought it looked like N. ventrata x alata to them and this baloney has circulated ever since...
 
gah....

The Deroose N. alata (which this is without a doubt, down to the white hanging basket and all!) is simply a N. Ventrata like all the rest. Someone somewhere years ago thought it looked like N. ventrata x alata to them and this baloney has circulated ever since...

Huh, so maybe I have grown ventrata then.
 
Thanks for clearing up "James"'s true identity for me. :) I think "alata" is a cooler word than "ventrata" (silly, I know), so I'll have to be on the lookout for an actual alata someday!
 
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