N. lowii ‘Trus Madi’ – best selected clone: BE-3100 SMALL
“This truly fabulous species has extremely tough purple/green pitchers. It’s a slow grower and not ideal as a beginner’s plant, but highly rewarding since few other species have such contrasting and unique upper and lower pitchers. It’s famous for feeding on the droppings of tree shrews in the wild, and occasionally birds, which it lures with a sugary exudate from under the lid of both lower and upper pitchers.
This particular clone was selected as the best out of 24 clones for being the most vigorous and it produces robust plants, which have appearance that are fully typical of the species. There is also now a lot of evidence that it grows more easily than all other clones commonly in cultivation today, being tolerant of warmer night-time temperatures than is usual for this species. This is probably due to the fact that our nurseries are not held at extreme highland conditions and this clone was the one that tolerated our particular conditions the best out of the 24 that we tested.
As it naturally grows in very humid montaine moss forests, even mature plants often have lightly developed root systems. Since it’s a characteristic of the species, the plants we ship often have few roots, but because they are so well hardened, they are still easy to establish. The last photo shows typical XS size sale quality plants.
History: First introduced in 2001.
Origin: Horticultural.
Source: Of a single clone, selected as the easiest to grow out of 24 candidate clones.
Photo notes: Plants shipped are of the same clone as shown in these photos.
Climate: Highland
