nepenthes rajah at the mountain garden at mesilau

[@nptsmirabilis]

The age of these neps must be at least 8-10 years. Their pitchers, leaves and stems look so massive.

[@vacciniumaugustifolium1420]

Neps can live for more than 100 years, I guess it could be way older since it look tottally mature

[@CPCmucrow]

awesome very huge!! I want to go here!!

[@BukuiZhao]

@食虫植物TV same although I found seeds of it on Amazon

[@vacciniumaugustifolium1420]

@@BukuiZhao no way, lucky you if it wasn't a scam

[@richcampoverde]

Beautiful plants

[@minoryt6600]

Were is this

[@GarrettSpring]

Jeez i would want to enjoy it rather than taking a million pics! Very nice still I would love to see that! :)

[@MEME-gr3op]

They're photographers....

[@ashtondominik4040]

where is this mountain locted

[@cixcell7735]

+Ashton Alindogan mt kinabalu, sabah, borneo, malaysia

[@flanderseiw5263]

ure extremely luckly as there is only like 2000 left in the wild and u found sooooo many

[@cixcell]

this is actually a protected spot you can go and see them

[@MrKmoconne]

Carnivorous plants usually grow in low nutrient soil conditions but the soil here looks rich in loam from all the plant life around them that must be decaying. Why do these grow here?

[@cixcell]

its actually not loamy at all. there may be a very fine superficial layer of leaf litter on top but it dissolves away very rapidly in the frequent rain. the ground there is clay based which is why just down the hill its slipping away.

[@cageC64]

Nepenthes Rajah also grows in more nutrient-dense soil than most other Nepenthes from what I remember reading

[@vacciniumaugustifolium1420]

@@cageC64 and I guess thats why they got one the most developped root system of all nepenthes?

[@amlyngamerhd419]

nice

[@marcoguizzetti7379]

i wanna go heeeere =(

[@cixcell7735]

i said that for YEARS until i finally did

[@vacciniumaugustifolium1420]

@@cixcell7735 lucky you

[@newcanadian]

And it was expensive

[@cixcell7735]

I've been told that this was destroyed in the 2015 earthquake or at least no longer accessible =(the land was beginning to slip at the bottom of the hill and I worry the creek nearby may have turned to a raging river in the flooding as well.

[@JoelVidal32]

What kind of soil is the rajah growing on?

[@cixcell]

ultramafic

[@JoelVidal32]

thanks! , What temperature does day and night? An irrigation can cause you to put some black leaflets?

[@cixcell]

not sure but those specs should all be in wikipedia. it was cool when i was there but not cold. villosa habitat on kinabalu was freezing though.