> 
> The plant also seems to have two types of stem.  One type has leaves set 
> relatively close together, and the tendrils do not coil.  The second 
> type has leaves that are far apart and tendrils which coil. If they fail 
> to wrap around something, the tendrils seem to die.  When they do wrap 
> (tightly) around a bamboo cane that I put in the pot, the tendrils form 
> a pitcher that is indistinguishable from the ones on the non-coiling 
> leaves.  Am I imagining things, or do Nepenthes have climbing and 
> non-climbing stems?
 Could _this_ be why me gracilis hasn't been pitchering lately?  A 
N.mirabilis in the same terrarium is pitchering (pitchers not as large as 
before I moved them to their present location).
Ben