N. x Dyeriana is a living piece of Nepenthes history! Created by famous early Nepenthes growers in the Victorian era, it is one of the earliest complex hybrids in cultivation.
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"Another beautiful Pitcher offered in 1903 is probably one of the finest hybrid Nepenthes in cultivation, a result effected by Tivey between N. x mixta and N. x dicksoniana, both hybrids. It is named Sir William T. Thiselton-Dyer in honour of the late Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. The pitchers attain a length of 14 in. or more, are subcylindric in shape, with a handsome peristome or ribbed mouth, the colour bright crimson, and the form undulate as in N. x mixta. The ground color of the body is green, the surface irregularly blotched with large spots of purplish or crimson brown. In addition to the ordinary slender spur at the back of the lid, the hump-like process characteristic of N. curtisii is prominent."
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"Tivey's first hybrid, Nepenthes x mixta, was from two beautiful species, N. northiana and N. curtisii, the latter the pollen parent. As might be expected, N. mixta is a fine cross, with pitchers 1 ft. or more in length, of a cream-yellow colour suffused with red and blotched as in N. northiana. The wings are shallow, are deeply laciniated; the ribs, which form the mouth of the pitcher, of a rich shining crimson. It was distributed in 1893."
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"Nepenthes x dicksoniana, offered in 1889, is the offspring of N. rafflesiana flowering in the Botanic Gardens at Edinburgh, fertilized by pollen of N. veitchii sent from Chelsea. Mr. Lindsay, late Curator of the Edinbrugh Botanic Gardens, effected the cross, and in deference to his wish the seedling bears the name of the Proefssor Dickson, formerly Professor of Botany at the University. The pitchers of the hybrid are fully 10 in. long, sub-cylindric, of a light fulvous green, densely spotted and speckled with bright crimson.
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