A Flashy Future Giant

[00:00:00]Special little plant spotlight here.

[00:00:02]This is a hybrid that I am really excited to watch grow up. It's still a young one, but you can already see how big and bulky this pitcher is.

[00:00:11]This is Nepenthes raja x robcantleyi.

[00:00:15]Raja produces some of the biggest pitchers in the genus and robcantleyi is not far behind it, but also brings with it really dark colorations and this big broad peristome. So, crossing the two, you get these big massive broad leaves that it produces and this may eventually produce leaves more than 2 ft long and almost as wide.

[00:00:37]And pitchers that eventually, hopefully, may exceed more than a gallon in volume.

[00:00:43]Uh again, this is still a very, very young plant. These pitchers are nowhere near full size, but they could eventually become some of the biggest in the genus. You can see those beautiful deep cherry and burgundy red colors that it has overall, contrasting with kind of that mottled appearance on the inside.

[00:01:04]And this will just become a bigger, fatter trap uh as each new leaf produces its own new uh pitchers.

[00:01:13]So, it's just going to get better from here.

[00:01:16]Look at that thing.