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A true wild card! This complex cross could grow up into ANYTHING!
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Two lottery tickets sown and traded to me by Joshua Ritts
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Lynne Easton's gorgeous plant, which made me want a seedling from this grex!
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So there I was just scrolling through Nepenthes groups on FaceBook when I saw one of the most uniquely gorgeous pitchers ever! Lynne Easton's pitcher plant has WILD curly wings, a wide yellow and red striped peristome around a lovely puckered pitcher opening, and just covered in gorgeous red mottling! I immediately started looking into this mysterious hybrid and discovered that it has a wildly complex heritage and a huge range of phenotypes in the seedset. This particular grex was hybridized by Nicholas LeBlanc. The seed parent was the vigorous and mysterious x splendiana (smilesii OR kampotiana x mirabilis), and the pollen parent was an eymae x ephippiata. Every clone seems to have its own unique and interesting characteristics in this grex!
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From ICPS CP Photofinder by Trent Meeks: "The female plant used in making N. Splendiana by Bednar/Bramblett was either N. smilesii, or the true N. kampotiana"
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Carson Trexler's "Pennywise", probably the most famous individual out of this grex!
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Gorgeous undulating margins on maroon leaves with grotesquely warped pitchers, what more could you ask for?!
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A decidedly tamer sibling! This Carlton Carnivores individual has subdued stripes, interesting pitcher shape, and beautiful light reds and yellows
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Cyrus Exum's Clone A has a dramatic change between the newly opened pitcher and mature pitcher!
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Cyrus Exum's GORGEOUS Clone A! I LOVE the color on this!
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This clone has a curious upturned lid and lovely scalloped peristome
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Cyrus Exum's Clone B has a much different pitcher shape! It is far more even in diameter and has a more folded back peristome
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Clone B has a curious neck on the peristome - it bends forward quite a bit!
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I obtained my seedlings in a trade (my very first Nepenthes trade!) with Joshua Ritts in September 2020. I am super excited to see what these grow up into! The range of phenotypes expressed in this grex is huge. I really like the mystery of having complex hybrid seedlings and we will see what happens over time! Mine are still very small, so anything can happen :)
Update November 2020 - First Pitchers!
Clone 1
Exciting wing development! Look how long the fingers are at the top near the peristome! Very cute tubby shape. Peristome has a few baby stripes!
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Leaves are very wide and fuzzy! Maybe they will be wavy like maxima? Nice pitcher to leaf ratio!
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Clone 2
MUCH redder and slimmer than Clone 1! Solid red peristome has almost a ribbed look to it. Red on the pitcher body is SUPER shiny!
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Leaves are thinner, which a strong mid-rib and a leathery texture covered in sparse hairs. Like night and day!
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Update December 2020
How are these siblings?!
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I particularly love the tubby pitcher shape of this one :)
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These two are growing FAST! Re-potted today and they were very rootbound!
Current Growing Conditions: Warm Intermediate Terrarium
Light: ~170 PPFD or 9730 Lux under 4000K LED shoplights
Humidity: ~90% night and 67% day
Temperature: ~68F night and 85F day
Water: Moist but not wet
Potting Mix: 50% long fibered sphagnum 50% perlite
Fertilizer: MaxSea (1/4 tsp/gallon) every other week into pitchers
Additional Notes: The variation between these two is incredible! Both seem to respond very well to fertilizer and are VERY fast, vigorous growers!
Light: ~170 PPFD or 9730 Lux under 4000K LED shoplights
Humidity: ~90% night and 67% day
Temperature: ~68F night and 85F day
Water: Moist but not wet
Potting Mix: 50% long fibered sphagnum 50% perlite
Fertilizer: MaxSea (1/4 tsp/gallon) every other week into pitchers
Additional Notes: The variation between these two is incredible! Both seem to respond very well to fertilizer and are VERY fast, vigorous growers!