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I bought this plant as TC-grown N. glabrata in spring 2001. N. glabrata is a very small plant producing very nicely coloured reddish pitchers - which my plant doesn't show! The pitcher colour is more brown and also this pitcher lid has long tentacles which is not typical for N. glabrata. The species of the mother plant will for sure be identified correct as N. glabrata, but I believe the father plant was from another species. On the island of Sulawesi two different species with long tentaculate appendages on the lid are described up to now. These two species are N. tentaculata and N. hamata. I don't know which one of these species did grow near to the mother plant, but my guess at the moment is N. tentaculata. The only N. glabrata x tentaculata picture I did find is located in the picture gallery of Phill Mann's website www.scarnivores.com. The pitcher shown seems to match my plant very well.
The lower pitcher of N. glabrata x tentaculata shown at the right picture is about 4.5cm high and the diamater of the whole plant is only about 12cm. It would easily fit in the N. gymnamphora pitcher in the background :-)
It will be interesting to see how large Nepenthes glabrata x tentaculata will get. I hope it stays as small as its parent species and will make a very nice terrarium plant. From my experience it grows best in pure living Sphagnum and needs high humidty of 70%-80% or above to pitcher well.
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The plant has slightly increased in size and the stem and leafes are still quite similar to N. glabrata although the leafes are a little bit wider and the base is clasping the stem more than N. glabrata. This lower pitcher of Nepenthes glabrata x tentaculata is about 8 cm in height and shows some features of both parent species.
About two weeks after opening the peristome has darkened and reached its final dark brown colour. (The picture is slightly to purplish in colour.)
After showing the pictures taken in December 2003 at the Petflytrap Forum Tony Paroubek posted a picture of a N. tentaculata from Sulawesi he is growing in his nursery. He kindly allowed me using it to illustrate the parentship of my plant. The following pictures show the species which I believe to be the parents.
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The pitcher shape and the peristome of the hybrid is intermediate between these two pitchers.