Nepenthes aristolochioides in cultivation These pictures show pitchers of a young plant approximately 18 months ex vitro. The pitchers are roughly 2cm in height.

Backlit pitchers of Nepenthes aristolochioides The pitchers function as a kind of lantern, similar as the hoods of Darlingtonia californica. When an isect has fed from the nectar on the peristome, it flies towards the light that floods through ...