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Cephalotus Botanical Drawings

Cephalotus follicularis from Curtis’s botanical magazine, plate 3118 (1831) shows a whole plant with ground hugging pitcher leaves and a flower spike bearing small star like white flowers. Curiously in addition to pitcher trap leaves, Cephalotus produces simple leaves and occasionally leaves intermediate in form between simple leaves and pitchers

Cephalotus follicularis pitcher trap

Young Cephalotus follicularis pitcher traps

Here is a picture of Cephalotus follicularis illuminated with UV light and photographed by Andrew Davis at JIC when illuminated with UV the plant has glowing vampire teeth!

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