Hey everyone,
I love how weird and wonderful Nepenthes inermis is – those upper pitchers look like little green toilet bowls or cocktail glasses with no peristome and a tiny lid. But check this out: my plant is producing that super thick, viscous fluid, and it’s coating the entire inside of the pitcher in a sticky film. You can see how glossy and gooey it looks, with droplets everywhere and even a couple tiny bugs already stuck in there!
I know this is totally normal for inermis (it uses both pitfall and flypaper mechanisms thanks to the mucilage trapping flying insects on the walls), but it’s still so cool to see in person. Makes me wonder if it’s catching more flies this way than drowning them at the bottom.
Happy growing
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by jeremiahsplants
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These cocky mosquitoes really think they can lay eggs in pitcher as they alway do, not this time haha
It’s so cool how some carnivorous plants do things a little differently from the rest of their species