RBGS FloraAeonium arboreum subsp. holochrysum Broadleaf Sugarbush (Protea eximia) Glandular Globe Thistle (Echinops sphaerocephalus) Grass Tree (Xanthorrhoea media) Jade Vine (Strongylodon macrobotrys) Koko (Soehrensia formosa) Lavender Queen (Leptospermum rotundifolium) Nepenthes mixta x maxima Orchids Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) Sago Cycad (Cycas revoluta) St Johns Wort (Hypericum oblongifolium) Spider Hibiscus / Japanese Lantern (Hibiscus schizopetalus) Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis)
Nepenthes mixta x maxima, commonly known as Pitcher Plant, this cultivar/hybrid is most likely “Miranda”.
It has pale green pitchers with red-brown speckles and an almost vertical mouth with a dark reddish-brown peristome. The peristome being the anatomical feature that surrounds the opening to pitcher tube structure.
The pitchers can grow to a height of 25–30 centimetres.
They are a perennial carnivorous tropical plant, classified as a Lowland, Intermediate, and sometimes Highland, due to its Lowland and Highland genetic ancestry.
Nepenthes mixta is a hybrid that is said to be derived from two naturally occurring species, Nepenthes maxima and Nepenthes northiana and possibly the cultivar Nepenthes ‘Miranda’. The combination of two highland and one lowland parent species means that this hybrid is relatively easy to cultivate.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
- Subphylum: Angiospermae
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- Order: Caryophyllales
- Family: Nepenthaceae
- Genus: Nepenthes
- Species:
at time of writing (June 2023) iNaturalistAU had 186 listed species including
Nepenthes maxima
Nepenthes northiana
- Hybrid: Nepenthes mixta
- Nepenthes mixta x maxima
- Cultivar: Nepenthes ‘Miranda’
Footnote & References
- The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/
- Tropical Pitcher-Plants (Genus Nepenthes), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/52646-Nepenthes
RBGS FloraAeonium arboreum subsp. holochrysum Broadleaf Sugarbush (Protea eximia) Glandular Globe Thistle (Echinops sphaerocephalus) Grass Tree (Xanthorrhoea media) Jade Vine (Strongylodon macrobotrys) Koko (Soehrensia formosa) Lavender Queen (Leptospermum rotundifolium) Nepenthes mixta x maxima Orchids Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) Sago Cycad (Cycas revoluta) St Johns Wort (Hypericum oblongifolium) Spider Hibiscus / Japanese Lantern (Hibiscus schizopetalus) Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis)
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