Accession Data
Nepenthes albomarginata
Common Name: Tropical Pitcher Plant
Family: Nepenthaceae
Country of Origin: Borneo, Malaya, Sumatra
Description: Nepenthes albomarginata is a carnivorous pitcher plant that seems to specialize in trapping termites. Termites are lured to the edge of the pitchers by a ring of edible white hairs, and many termites fall in and are digested, providing the plant with nitrogen and other nutrients.
Accession Data
Accession #: 202400080
Accession Date: 2024-09-24 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 3116
Quantity: 1
Source: donation from Patrick N.
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nepenthaceae
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