Accession #: 200400281
Accession Date: 2004-11-19
Common name: Albany Pitcher Plant
Family: Cephalotaceae
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Country of Origin: southwest Australia
Description: A species of flightless, ant-mimicking fly requires Cephalotus pitchers to rear its young. They don't seem to mind growing up in the digestive enzymes of the pitchers and to this date, their larvae have been found living nowhere else.4
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USDA Zone: 9-10
Source: Matt Opel ex Jeff Matteson NECPS
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Culture:
In nature, Cephalotus mainly grows in a mixture of sand, grass, and peat while dieting on mainly crawling insects such as ants.