Nepenthes ‘Pennywise’(《小丑回魂》里小丑的名字‘Pennywise’)
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Submitted: 23 October 2020
2020年10月23日
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In early 2017, seeds which Nicholas LeBlanc sold me in late 2016 yielded an unusually robust plant. It advanced from a cell tray to a gallon pot in under a year and a half, by which time its leaf span was over 30 cm. In late 2018, upon introducing it to a 5 gal. bucket, leaf span stretched to over a meter across, adding over a meter in height some months later.
2017年初,尼古拉斯·勒布朗(Nicholas LeBlanc)在2016年底卖给我的种子中,产生了一种异常健壮的个体。在不到一年半的时间里,它就从培养盘移栽到了一加仑的花盆里,那时它的叶展已经超过30厘米了。2018年末,当它被移栽大到一个5加仑的盆中时,叶子的跨度延伸到了一米多宽,几个月后又增加了一米多高。
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The pedigree is Nepenthes (kampotiana × maxima) × (eymae × ephippiata). Nicholas thinks that the N. kampotiana clone used by Bruce Bednar in the 1980s may have been what we now know to be N. smilesii. The mother plant, N. eymae × ephippiata, is a wonderful clone bred by Joel Stern.
父母本分别是(贡布×大猪)猪笼草和(艾玛×鞍型)猪笼草。尼古拉斯认为布鲁斯·贝德纳尔(Bruce Bednar)在20世纪80年代使用的N.kampotiana(贡布)克隆体可能就是我们现在所知道的N.smilesii(史密斯)。其母本(艾玛×鞍型)是乔尔·斯特恩(Joel Stern)培育的一种极好的个体品种。
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A specimen of Nepenthes ‘Pennywise’ is a show-stopper (Fig. 8). When left untrimmed, it may have up to 20+ traps on it at any given time, retaining them for up to nine months before expiring. Leaves are broad and elegant.
“ Pennywise”的标准样子(图8)。如果不修剪的话,它在任何时候都可能有20多个陷阱,在到期前最多保留9个月。叶子宽大而优雅。
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Its growth demeanor is “aggressively vigorous”. It often grows with insatiable speed, especially as it begins to vine. Desirably, it will produce numerous rosetted traps before doing so. Nodes along the vines are precociously well-developed when inactive, activating explosively: multiple nodes may fill out into lush growth along a single damaged vine, an attractive horticultural trait.
它的生长总是“充满活力”的。环境难以满足的生长速度,特别是当它开始拔节的时候。比较理想的情况是,在拔节之前,它会产生许多美丽的笼子。当植物生长不活跃时,生长好的笼蔓会爆炸性地接笼:(activating explosively: multiple nodes may fill out into lush growth along a single damaged vine, an attractive horticultural trait.暂未翻译)
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Traps and foliage take after the father, with much of the vigor of the mother. The weird and wonderful lowers are leathery, slightly pubescent, and raspberry-red, with plenty of splotching on a waxy yellow interior, and red-yellow striped and kinky peristomes that bend over the edge of gaping, irregularly warped, narrowly ovoid orifices. Lids are enormous, flat or slightly vaulted. Intermediate and upper traps are absolutely beautiful – hovering, goblet-shaped, rigid, luminous yellow lanterns with richly pigmented interiors and a generous lid. It thrives under all manner of artificial lights or windowsills in household conditions. Copious offerings of orally applied fertilizer and slaughterhouse offal appease and embolden it to grow greater still.
笼子和叶子像父本,生长速度像母本一样充满活力。怪异而奇妙的是笼子下部是皮革状的,略带红色的短柔毛,在蜡黄色的内部有大量斑点,红黄色条纹和弯曲的外口,不规则的弯曲,狭长卵形孔。笼盖巨大,呈扁平或微拱形状。笼子中部和上部非常美丽,呈盘旋的酒杯状,坚硬,像黄色灯笼般的笼身,内部色彩丰富,笼盖子非常大。在人工环境下,它可以在各种补光灯或窗台上蓬勃生长。 适当的肥料可使它变得更大。
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A flesh-eating, overgrown monstrosity, with plentiful and obscene gluttonous gullets hanging pendulously, Nepenthes ‘Pennywise’ is more than a little unsettling. Illuminated under harsh light in the corner of my basement, it looks for all the world like alien spawn. I was inspired to invoke the name of the disturbing demon clown that feeds upon the souls of children.
猪笼草是一种食肉的、杂草丛生的怪物,大量吞食的陷阱悬在半空,“Pennywise”让人感到非常不安。在我地下室的一角,在刺眼的灯光下,它看起来就像外星生物一样。我受到启发,想起了一个以孩子的灵魂为食的令人不安的恶魔小丑的名字。
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‘Pennywise’ is male. Its propagation must be done vegetatively to maintain its unique genetic attributes. It is suspected by some that the plant may be polyploid.
“Pennywise”是雄性。它的只能进行无性繁殖,以保持其独特的遗传特性。有人怀疑这个个体可能是多倍体。
