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What is your favorite hybrid?

Hybrids are usually liked less than straight species here, so lets see some nice things about them!
Whats your favorite Nepenthes hybrid and why?
 
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This is an impossible question: there are too many to choose from!
Okay, of the ones I have, maybe 'Splendid Diana' x ventricosa "red." They're vigorous plants, and immensely varied in appearance.
Of the ones I don't have....?????? Anything with teeth, dark color, or extreme mottling and striping.
 
My favorite hybrid in my collection is my lowii x truncata "wide peristome". I also really liked the veitchii x platychila I used to have...I really miss it.
 
My young Trusmadiensis x burbidgeae is a bit slow, But puts out exciting pitchers every time and they just keep getting better and better. My two plants also tolerate the sometimes ridiculously-high daytime temperatures and they don't skip a beat
 
I don't even have it in my possession yet but I am already gonna go ahead and say that my new favorite hybrid is N. robcantleyi x hamata!!

Man every thing about the cross just seems disproportionately epic.
 
I don't have a favourite as such, but i prefer anything with spectabilis in it as it always seems to lead to some fantastic coloured peristomes.
 
While not a big fan of hybrids, I can appreciate some of the natural ones. It would be a toss up for me between N. edwardsiana x villosa or N.muluensis x lowii.
 
N. ventricosa x Tiveyi 'A' is a perfect hybrid. Pale green pitchers with a pink flush over the peristome. Absurdly vigorous and nearly bullet-proof.
 
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Probably N. ventricosa x (xTiveyi) "A". This plant could give N. x ventrata a run for it's money in terms of vigor. I got mine as a rooted cutting about 3 months ago, and it has nearly doubled in size since then. It is strange how uncommon it is in collections, though.
 
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