Nepenthes: Plants Without Grief

Nepenthes rajah pitchers occasionally catch frogs, birds, and small mammals.

Nepenthes is a genus of about 170 carnivorous tropical pitcher plant species.

The genus name Nepenthes references a potion in Homer's Odyssey.

Linnaeus formally published the genus name Nepenthes in 1753.

Monkeys were once thought to drink rainwater from the pitchers. Monkey cups.

Paul A. Zahl proved an orangutan actually drank pitcher fluid in Sarawak.

Nepenthes mirabilis ranges from Indochina throughout the Malay Archipelago to Australia.

Ants top the menu for most Nepenthes species hunting arthropod prey.

Three Nepenthes species have symbiotic relationships with treeshrews providing nutrients.

All studied Nepenthes species share a chromosome number of two n equals eighty.

Nepenthes rajah may occasionally catch small vertebrates like frogs and birds.

Nepenthes distillatoria is the type species of the genus.

Linnaeus said finding this wonderful plant would make past ills forgotten.