UNH's Nepenthes

[NatchGreyes]

Hey Everyone:

About a month ago, I stopped by the UNH greenhouses and saw that they had a great CP display, but it needed some help. Mostly, everything just needed to be repotted them. I contacted them and they were more than happy to have me come out - on behalf of the NECPS - to help train their volunteers in repotting CPs and caring for CPs. In a little less than four hours yesterday, we managed to repot nearly the entirety of UNH's Sarr, VFT, Ping, and Drosera collection. As we did this, I began checking the Nep tags and noticed that some were unlabeled or had multiple tags. So, below, I'm going to post a whole bunch of them to make sure that the labels are correct.

Labeled as N. sp. 1:

N. sanguinea:

No label as far as I saw. N. sib. hybrid?

No label:

 

[Cthulhu138]

Sp. 1 looks accurate for the 1st one. 2nd one is either sanguinea or sanguinea x ramispina. Can't really say on the 3rd, maybe maxima x ventricosa. 4th one looks like it may be a fusca.

 

[NatchGreyes]

Also, these two:

No label as far as we could find:

This was labeled 'alata' but I'm not sure, now that the complex has been broken apart, whether it's something else:

 

[NatchGreyes]

Thanks, Johnny. Since you might be up there in about a month, maybe you wouldn't mind looking through things, since you're far better at IDing than I am.

 

[Cthulhu138]

reinwardtiana and graciliflora on those 2.

 

[Whimgrinder]

#3 resembles my N. Gothica, suggesting it likely has maxima and/or sibuyanensis in the mix, but you shouldn't label it as anything specific, since the odds are you will never know for sure. You could label it as "probable N. maxima hybrid" and get away with it.

 

[Cthulhu138]

Yeah, I'll take a look at things if I can make it up there.

 

[theplantman]

I am glad this went well for you guys!! Very happy for those plants--you should put up the before shots!!

 

[hcarlton]

First one, I've never seen upper pics on the BE sp. 1 so if that's what the label meant, not sure I can help. However, it reminds me a lot of fusca thanks to the lid and neck shape, along with peristome color. #2 is sanguinea, #3 'Red Leopard' would be a very close match, so maxima x ventricosa or the reverse. Last one in that list looks like it has clipeata or a similar parent in it, owing to leaf shape/hairs/pitcher contours, but too much going on in that one to tell. I concur with Cthulhu138 on the last 2 in your second post.

 

[NatchGreyes]

I am glad this went well for you guys!! Very happy for those plants--you should put up the before shots!!

I have some and will do a thread, but it's gonna take me a week or so, since I'm leaving on vacation in a few. I'll let you know.

Thanks everyone!

 

[Cthulhu138]

First one, I've never seen upper pics on the BE sp. 1 so if that's what the label meant, not sure I can help. However, it reminds me a lot of fusca thanks to the lid and neck shape, along with peristome color. #2 is sanguinea, #3 'Red Leopard' would be a very close match, so maxima x ventricosa or the reverse. Last one in that list looks like it has clipeata or a similar parent in it, owing to leaf shape/hairs/pitcher contours, but too much going on in that one to tell. I concur with Cthulhu138 on the last 2 in your second post.

The last one is probably fusca BE "Sarawak Red".

http://webzoom.freewebs.com/trainxpress/Nepenthes foto/Nepenthes fusca.jpg
http://www.exoticplantsplus.com/NfuscaSarawakBECR.jpg
http://coloradocarnivorousplantsociety.com/2004-9-29-Highland_Nep 016.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2424/3827369600_8395d884d1_b.jpg
Can see leaf detail in this one. http://www.grislygrotto.com/hcb/cfusca.jpg
http://www.grislygrotto.com/hcb/afusca.jpg
http://www.hawaiianbotanicals.com/images/Nepenthes/fusca.jpg
http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/1273/dscn01499ai.jpg

 

[Cthulhu138]

Dave and I got most of the NOID and mislabeled stuff straightened out this weekend.

#1 is a fusca of some sort.
#2 is sanguinea x ramispina
#3 is maxima x ventricosa or vice versa.
#4 is fusca "Sarawak Red"
#5 is reinwardtiana
#6 is gracilliflora

There was also an enormous N.spathulata without a tag and many ventratas marked as alata. We also added a N.sanguinea Orange, N. ventricosa x (thorellii x aristolochioides) an unknown N. maxima hybrid (possibly maxima x thorellii. Dave can actually track down the provenance of this plant and should have a positive ID soon.), P. agnata 'True Blue', U.alpina, H. minor x heterodoxa and a nice Cephalotus to the collection.