Nepanthes Attenboroughii Plant
This Plant usually called “Rat-Eating Pitcher Plant” It is named after the celebrated broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough, who is a keen enthusiast of the genus. The species is characterised by its large and distinctive bell-shaped. Nepenthes attenboroughii was collected on the summit of Mount Victoria, a mountain island in central Palawan, Philippines The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University selected N. attenboroughii as one of the "top 10 new species described in 2009"
Nepenthes attenboroughii was discovered by Alastair S. Robinson, Stewart R. McPherson and Volker B. Heinrich in June 2007, during a 2 month research expedition to catalogue the different species of pitcher plant found across the Philippine The stem, is up to 3.5 cm thick and height of up to 1.5 m.
The leaves are up to 30 cm long and 10 cm wide, the stem are up to 40 cm long and 15 cm wide. The leaves are oblong to elliptic. The largest recorded pitcher of N. attenboroughii measured more than 1.5 litres in volume
Scientific classification
Species: N.
attenboroughii
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•en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes_attenboroughii
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