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New Nepenthes species discovered; Nepenthes pudica

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"The plant forms specialized underground shoots with small, white, chlorophyll-free leaves, the researchers said. The pitchers are much larger than the leaves and have a reddish color.

“This species places its up-to-11-cm-long (4.3-inch-long) pitchers underground, where they are formed in cavities or directly in the soil and trap animals living underground, usually ants, mites and beetles,” said lead study author Martin Dančák of Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, in a news release."
 
Weird… but what it isn’t weird in this hobby:lol:
 
That will make some interesting hybrids.
 
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