Nepenthes maxima

While trimming back my pitcher plants (Nepenthes maxima), I usually check to see what kind of critters they catch in their traps. Usually its ants and other small insects & arthropods, and sometimes alien snails. But this trap (cut away) caught a young brown anole (Anolis sagrei). This is an upper trap and grow 8+ inches (20+ cm).Nepenthes traps are modified leaves designed hold liquid to capture prey by means of a pit fall method.See www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/7932060120/in/photostream/The brown anole, the victim seen here, is likely the main culprit in the near disappearance of the green anole (Anolis carolinensis) that many of us grew up with in Hawaii. Lizards are not native to the Hawaiian Islands, nor is Nepenthes.www.flickr.com/photos/50823119@N08/5644420432/

Great pitcher plantNepenthaceae (Tropical Pitcher Plant family)Native to New Guinea and Indonesia (the Maluku Islands & Sulawesi)Oahu, Hawaii, USA (Cultivated)Ripe female flowers & fruits

Great pitcher plantNepenthaceae (Tropical Pitcher Plant family)Native to New Guinea and Indonesia (the Maluku Islands & Sulawesi)Oahu, Hawaii, USA (Cultivated)Pitcher www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/7972551154/in/photolist-...Nepenthes are carnivorous plants. This one trapped a Greenhouse frog (Eleutherodactylus planirostris), related to Coqui frogs (Eleutherodactylus coqui)--both not native to Hawaii.

Great pitcher plantNepenthaceae (Tropical Pitcher Plant family)Native to New Guinea and Indonesia (the Maluku Islands & Sulawesi)Oahu, Hawaii, USA (Cultivated)Female flowers and fruitCloseup of flowerswww.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/31226629384/in/photostreamLower pitcherswww.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/17020306128/in/photolist...Upper pitcherswww.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/7972551154/in/photolist-...

Great pitcher plantNepenthaceae (Tropical Pitcher Plant family)Native to New Guinea and Indonesia (the Maluku Islands & Sulawesi)Oahu, Hawaii, USA (Cultivated)Upper pitchers pictured here. Pitchers are modified leaves designed to capture prey and provide nutrients for the plant. Water and enzymes await the victim that falls into the pitcher.Lower picherswww.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/17020306128/in/photolist...Flower spikes & fruitwww.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/31226630324/in/photostream/

Great pitcher plantNepenthaceae (Tropical Pitcher Plant family)Native to New Guinea and Indonesia (the Maluku Islands & Sulawesi)Oahu, Hawaii, USA (Cultivated)Upper pitcher.nativeplants.hawaii.edu

Great pitcher plantNepenthaceae (Tropical Pitcher Plant family)Native to New Guinea and Indonesia (the Maluku Islands & Sulawesi)Oahu, Hawaii, USA (Cultivated)Female flowers and fruitFlower spikeswww.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/31226630324/in/photostream/Lower pitcherswww.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/17020306128/in/photolist...Upper pitcherswww.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/7972551154/in/photolist-...

Great pitcher plantNepenthaceae (Tropical Pitcher Plant family)Native to New Guinea and Indonesia (the Maluku Islands & Sulawesi)Oahu, Hawaii, USA (Cultivated)Two color forms of N. maxima. Lower pitchers.Upper pitchers www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/7972551154/in/photolist-...Flower spikes & fruitwww.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/31226630324/in/photostream/

Great pitcher plantNepenthaceae (Tropical pitcher plant family)Native to New Guinea and Indonesia (the Maluku Islands & Sulawesi)Oahu, Hawaii, USA (Cultivated)Pitcher www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/7972551154/in/photolist-...Nepenthes are carnivorous plants. This one trapped a Greenhouse frog (Eleutherodactylus planirostris), related to Coqui frogs (Eleutherodactylus coqui)--both not native to Hawaii.

Great pitcher plantNepenthaceae (Tropical Pitcher Plant family)Native to New Guinea and Indonesia (the Maluku Islands & Sulawesi)Oahu, Hawaii, USA (Cultivated)Upper pitchers.nativeplants.hawaii.edu

Summary[edit] Description: Bahasa Indonesia: Bunga Betina Nepenthes maxima. Date: 19 October 2012, 21:06:59. Source: Own work. Author: Ariefrahman. Camera location1° 21′ 15.9″ N, 124° 51′ 48.19″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 1.354416; 124.863385.

Summary[edit] Description: Nepenthes oblanceolata from near Wamena, Baliem Valley, New Guinea (sometimes regarded as a synonym of N. maxima). Date: August 2013. Source: Thomas Gronemeyer. Author: Thomas Gronemeyer. Permission (Reusing this file): Attribution of this image to the author (Thomas Gronemeyer) is required in a prominent location near to the image.

Summary[edit] Description: Nepenthes maxima lower pitcher from around the Anggi Lakes, West Papua, New Guinea. Date: August 2013. Source: Thomas Gronemeyer. Author: Thomas Gronemeyer. Permission (Reusing this file): Attribution of this image to the author (Thomas Gronemeyer) is required in a prominent location near to the image.

Summary[edit] Description: Nepenthes maxima upper pitcher from around the Anggi Lakes, West Papua, New Guinea. Date: August 2013. Source: Thomas Gronemeyer. Author: Thomas Gronemeyer. Permission (Reusing this file): Attribution of this image to the author (Thomas Gronemeyer) is required in a prominent location near to the image.

Illustration of Nepenthes curtisii (=N. maxima) from the type description.

Summary[edit] Description: Illustration from "Die Gattung Nepenthes". Date: 1895. Source: Beck, G. 1895. Die Gattung Nepenthes. Wiener Illustrirte Garten-Zeitung 20(3–6): 96–107, 141–150, 182–192, 217–229. Author: Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau (1856–1931).

Summary[edit] Description: Nepenthes oblanceolata upper pitcher from near Wamena, Baliem Valley, New Guinea (this species is sometimes regarded as a synonym of N. maxima). Date: August 2013. Source: Thomas Gronemeyer. Author: Thomas Gronemeyer. Permission (Reusing this file): Attribution of this image to the author (Thomas Gronemeyer) is required in a prominent location near to the image.

Summary[edit] Description: Nepenthes maxima lower pitcher from around the Anggi Lakes, West Papua, New Guinea. Date: August 2013. Source: Thomas Gronemeyer. Author: Thomas Gronemeyer. Permission (Reusing this file): Attribution of this image to the author (Thomas Gronemeyer) is required in a prominent location near to the image.

Illustration of Nepenthes curtisii (=N. maxima).

Summary[edit] Description: Bahasa Indonesia: Bunga Jantan Nepenthes maxima. Date: 19 October 2012, 21:06:57. Source: Own work. Author: Ariefrahman.

Nepenthes curtisii (N. maxima) from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, vol. 116 [ser. 3, vol. 46]: t. 7138 (1890) [M. Smith]

Description: Cultivated N. maxima. -Jeremiah-. Date: 23 April 2006 (original upload date). Source: Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. Author: JeremiahsCPs at English Wikipedia.

Summary[edit] Description: Nepenthes maxima upper pitcher from around the Anggi Lakes, West Papua, New Guinea. Date: August 2013. Source: Thomas Gronemeyer. Author: Thomas Gronemeyer. Permission (Reusing this file): Attribution of this image to the author (Thomas Gronemeyer) is required in a prominent location near to the image.

Summary[edit] Description: English: Upper pitcher of Nepenthes maxima at Mount Soputan Protected Forest, North Sulawesi Bahasa Indonesia: Kantong atas Nepenthes maxima di Hutan Lindung Gunung Soputan, Sulawesi Utara. Date: 21 June 2015, 09:18:14. Source: Own work. Author: Ariefrahman. Camera location 1° 08′ 42.06″ N, 124° 44′ 50.22″ E : View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth: 1.145016; 124.747282.