Nepenthes

The pitcher plant, called Nepenthes because of its vessel-shaped leaves, adapts to nutrient-poor soils such as in this small patch of Kerangas forest near Selimbau, Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Photo by Yves Laumonier/CIFOR

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