so...does such a plant exist in real life?

[amphirion]

so, there's a plant that i'd love to have...the only problem is the fact that i don't know if it even is a real plant....yet.

please hear me out.
i'd love to find a nepenthes that possesses a "wine shape" pitcher figure--something like an eymae, or jacquelineae (elongated though), that is lime green colored. Add to that, molted with purple speckling. and a large but flat permistone like jacquelineae or platychila but with the stripping design of a spectabilis.

does a plant like that even exist? if not, what would be the name of a Nepenthes (natural or hybrid) that closest resembles what i'm talking about?

 

[Halt]

N. platychila ? http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff123/Threeskins/Nplatychilla2.jpg

not a wine pitcher, but idk.

 

[seedjar]

Not sure if it exists, but if it doesn't, it could maybe be produced as a hybrid from the infundibular species you mentioned (not to mention inermis, of which I'm pretty sure there are lime green forms.) N. maxima would possibly be a good candidate to add the striping, being closely related to eymae. I know I haven't seen a picture of anything like that - I'm pretty sure I would remember that.
~Joe

PS - Wow, nice call Halt.

 

[amphirion]

that is quite a nice platychila specimen. the only reason i have against it is the coloration of the speckling...it's more red than purple, like a nice dark purple would be super spiffy.

 

[dashman]

Isn't wine a liquid? Sorry to add no real value to your post, but I had to say it.

 

[Nepfreak]

Maybe a pitopangii ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes_pitopangii ) crossed with a nice dark red jacq, maybe with a bit of eymae to round it out?

 

[amphirion]

Never seen N. pitopangii before...but i will agree it looks super sexy....

something else crossed my mind, what if we inversed the color of the pitchers? a purple/burgundy body with lime green flecks? with a lime green candy-striped permistone?

@dash---argh! i meant "wine-shaped"

 

[Dexenthes]

Wow.... Congrats man, on pulling out the most obscure and awesome nepenthes I have seen in a while.

 

[Brokken]

Here's one that I think meets your criteria and it is fairly easy to get:

N. mirabilis var. echinostoma:

http://www.redfernnaturalhistory.com/uploadedimages/thumbs/thumb_225462262.jpg

 

[amphirion]

thanks Brokken for that suggestion, however, the shape of the pitcher differs from what im trying to aim for....

maybe a cross between a platychila x jacquelineae(dark red) and spectabilis (north sumatra)?
anybody want to try crossing? unfortunately, i have none of these plants