Botanic Garden >> Gardening > >> Question and Answer >> Plant Species >> Carnivorous Plants

Identifying a Nepenthes with Prominent Wings: Likely N. rafflesiana

Distinctive Winged Pitchers

A TV show featured a Nepenthes with large wings on the pitcher front. This trait is characteristic of Nepenthes rafflesiana or its hybrids. Few other species have such prominent wings.

Carnivorous Plants: Etiolated Growth on a Columnar Cactus; Identifying and Removing Invasive Sedge Grass in Carnivorous Plant Pots; Nepenthes 'Miranda' Classification and Identifying Unknown Nepenthes; "European Wasp Eater" Is Actually a North American Sarracenia Hybrid; Identifying a Sundew: Drosera spatulata 'Fraser Island'; Mystery Plant Identified: It's a Canna Lily, Not a Banana; Identifying and Caring for a Phoenix roebelenii (Date Palm); Identifying and Reblooming Calathea crocata 'Candela'; Identifying 30-Year Corn Plant (Dracaena 'Janet Craig'); Mystery Basal Rosette in the Flower Garden: Could It Be Wood Sage?

Garden Articles

Identifying a Fork-Leaf Drosera: Patience Required

Identifying a Tagless Pitcher Plant from Australian Market: Sarracenia Hybrid

Identifying Your Mystery Nepenthes: Likely a Maxima Hybrid

Identifying Sarracenia purpurea from Photo

Nepenthes Pitchers Turning Black: Focus on Leaves, Increase Light

Identifying a Dormant Butterwort: Likely the 'Titan' Hybrid

Yucca Elephantipes: Care Guide for Leggy Growth

Plants

Mystery Plant Identified: Desert Rose (Adenium obesum)

Identifying "Pink Splash" / Polka Dot Plant (Hypoestes)

Identifying a Leggy Kalanchoe (Calandiva) Houseplant

Norfolk Island Pine Identification and Indoor Care

Mystery Plant ID: Large Spotted Leaves, Yellow Flower — Is It a Hosta?

Identifying a Mystery Orange-Trumpet Shrub in Eastern NC

Reviving a Neglected Office Planter – Croton, Parlor Palm, and Mum