This is one of the largest pitcher plants in the world and is rightly named the Rajah of Pitcher Plants. Perhaps not many people realize that this Nepenthes rajah , a pitcher plant from Borneo is named after James Brooke, the first White Rajah of Sarawak.
It is a lovely pitcher plant indeed and has appeared on a stamp of Malaysia in 1996.
The largest recorded pitcher of N. rajah, measuring 41 cm, was found on March 26, 2011, during a trip to Mesilau organised by The Sabah Society
Seven of the 90 recognised nepenthes species are only found in Sarawak.
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