Copyright by Andreas Wistuba. The photograph may be downloaded for private use and may be used by the ICPS. The photograph may not be used commercially or for publications without permission by Andreas Wistuba. (andreas.wistuba@rhein-neckar.de) } IMAGE: 0091.jpg DATE: 1991 NAME: [Nepenthes ampullaria] CREDIT: Photograph by Andreas Wistuba (andreas.wistuba@rhein-neckar.de) from Photo-CD, scanned by Kodak/Germany. DESC: Ground pitchers. TEXT: { Nepenthes ampullaria Ground pitchers. Photographed in Mulu National Park, Malaysia (Borneo). Note that no leafblades are visible. Nepenthes ampullaria is notable for only having ground- and rosette-pitchers but no real upper pitchers. Climbing vines grow short side shoots which grow as rosettes with highly reduced leafblades. Pitchers on the ground trap for ants and other small animals.
Copyright by Andreas Wistuba. The photograph may be downloaded for private use and may be used by the ICPS. The photograph may not be used commercially or for publications without permission by Andreas Wistuba (andreas.wistuba@rhein-neckar.de) } IMAGE: 0092.jpg DATE: 1994 NAME: [Nepenthes ampullaria] CREDIT: Photograph by Andreas Wistuba (andreas.wistuba@rhein-neckar.de) from Photo-CD, scanned by Kodak/Germany. DESC: Rosettes with pitchers on climbing stems. TEXT: { Nepenthes ampullaria Photographed in Irian Jaya near Tayeve. Air-rosettes which grow from long climbing vines. Nepenthes ampullaria is notable for only having ground- and rosette pitchers but no real upper pitchers. Climbing vines grow short side shoots which grow as rosettes with highly reduced leafblades and comparably large pitchers. The main shoot does not grow any pitchers at all in adult plants.
Copyright by Andreas Wistuba. The photograph may be downloaded for private use and may be used by the ICPS. The photograph may not be used commercially or for publications without permission by Andreas Wistuba (andreas.wistuba@rhein-neckar.de) } IMAGE: 0093.jpg DATE: 1994 NAME: [Nepenthes ampullaria] CREDIT: Photograph by Andreas Wistuba (andreas.wistuba@rhein-neckar.de). DESC: Large air-rosette pitchers. TEXT: { Nepenthes ampullaria Air rosettes with large pitchers pitchers. Photographed in Irian Jaya near Tayeve. Our guide is holding a vine with a huge rosette. Another one is visible in the foreground. Both rosettes are freely hanging in the air the growing main shoot often being 10 meters and more away in the trees. Nepenthes ampullaria is notable for only having ground- and rosette pitchers but no real upper pitchers. Climbing vines grow short side shoots which grow as rosettes with highly reduced leafblades.
Copyright by Andreas Wistuba. The photograph may be downloaded for private use and may be used by the ICPS. The photograph may not be used commercially or for publications without permission by Andreas Wistuba (andreas.wistuba@rhein-neckar.de) } IMAGE: 0095.jpg NAME: [Nepenthes veitchii] CREDIT: Photograph by Andreas Wistuba (andreas.wistuba@rhein-neckar.de). DESC: Pitchers used for boiling rice TEXT: { Our guides used pitchers of Nepenthes veitchii to boil their rice.
Copyright by Andreas Wistuba. The photograph may be downloaded for private use and may be used by the ICPS. The photograph may not be used commercially or for publications without permission by Andreas Wistuba (andreas.wistuba@rhein-neckar.de) } IMAGE: 0094.jpg NAME: [Nepenthes eymae] CREDIT: Photograph by Andreas Wistuba (andreas.wistuba@rhein-neckar.de). DESC: Closeup of pitcher TEXT: { Copyright by Andreas Wistuba. The photograph may be downloaded for private use and may be used by the ICPS. The photograph may not be used commercially or for publications without permission by Andreas Wistuba (andreas.wistuba@rhein-neckar.de) }