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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This beast boasts semi spherical nectar spoons, gold hairs and rigid long lasting pitchers. It's very vigorous and grows quite large... Heliamphora ionasi RG x pilosa 2 - AW 🌱 #carnivorousplants #heliamphora #plantphotography

Plant tetris! I've been shuffling plants and this plant is in the front row. I know many of you are hard core species snobs but this hybrid is undeniably beautiful!

This beast boasts semi spherical nectar spoons, gold hairs and rigid long lasting pitchers. It's very vigorous and grows quite large...

Heliamphora ionasi RG x pilosa 2 - AW

#heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful #plants #terrariumplants #plantaddict #plantporn #plantoftheday #plantsofinstagram #plantsplantsplants #indoorjungle #foliage

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I've been watching this plant unfurl for over a week and it has really captivated me. This mesmerizing beauty is a massive plant, with sprawling gangsta-lean pitchers that push everything else around. Surreal color graduation as well... Heliamphora ionasi "Yellow Stripe" Chuck Lyons 🌱 #horticulture

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Some plants just speak to me, and this one is yelling! This electric colored heliamphora is the largest pulchella in my collection, rising to over 7" and it hasn't slowed down yet. It's an absolute unit, has crazy venation and colors that absolutely sing. Heliamphora pulchella Amuri AW1 🌱

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

his is certainly one of the most distinctive hybrids, heliamphora sarracenoides x minor 'Burgundy Black'. It has a graceful, spiraling nectar spoon that is so just so pleasing to watch unfurl. 🌱 #carnivorousplants #heliamphora #plantphotography

This is certainly one of the most distinctive hybrids, heliamphora sarracenoides x minor 'Burgundy Black'.

I have three different forms of this cross, but this is one of my favorites. It has a graceful, spiraling nectar spoon that is so just so pleasing to watch unfurl.

It is a vigorous grower for me, with a healthy clumping habit. A spectacular plant.

#heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful #plantaddict #plants #terrariumplants #foliage

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Fresh pop on a flowering size h. glabra AW. I've had this flower twice in the last 4 months and it keeps dividing. Such a stunning and unique plant. 🌱 #carnivorousplants #heliamphora #pitcherplants

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It's officially Summer! Happy Solstice everyone. I've been busy collecting pollen and pollinating some plants. I hope all is going well with you and your gardens... Heliamphora pulchella Churi 🌱 #carnivorousplants #heliamphora #plantphotography

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

One of the most beautiful plants in the collection. A freshly opened Heliamphora ceracea from @andreas.wistuba 🌱 #plantphotography #carnivorousplants #horticulture

One of the most beautiful plants in the collection. A freshly opened Heliamphora ceracea from @andreas.wistuba

#heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful #plantaddict #plants #terrariumplants #foliage #plantsofinstagram

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

This peculiar flower has dashing sepals which bend with age... I caught this mid to late in its blooming display. A gorgeous plant, Lepanthes felis. 🌱 #orchids #plantphotography #horticulture

This peculiar flower has dashing sepals which bend with age... I caught this mid to late in its blooming display.

A gorgeous plant, Lepanthes felis. 🌱

#lepanthespecies #lepanthes #orchidspecies #orchids #orchidphotography #plantphotography #miniatureorchids #miniatureorchidsofinstagram #orquideasminiaturas #orchidsofinstagram #flowers #foliage #natureisbeautiful #beautifulplants #orchidaddict #plantaddict #plants #terrariumplants #heliamphora #botany #horticulture

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I really enjoy watching the pitchers inflate and this one ended up making a balloon later on before it burst open. I had high hopes when I received these as juveniles and now that I'm getting mature pitchers and massive leaf jumps I am absolutely thrilled. Heliamphora "Cyclops" 🌱 #plantphotography

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Anyone sick of me posting pulchella pictures yet? Any guesses which clone this might be? 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #botany #horticulture

Still riding the pulchella train. Any guesses which clone this is?

#heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful #plantaddict #plants #terrariumplants #foliage

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Look at this cozy snuggle puddle. Pulchella keeps calling and I keep answering! This beautiful plant is diminutive in stature but is chock-full of personality. Don't mind the u. humboldtii stolon invading the pot... heliamphora pulchella Churi 🌱 #plantphotography #botany #carnivorousplants

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I keep coming back to this plant. It is just so unique and the pictures don't quite do it justice. As the pitchers age they turn so dark, with the contrasting white hairs on the inside and around the rim... it is just stunning. Heliamphora pulchella 🌱 #carnivorousplants #plantphotography #botany

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Heliamphora neblinae x sarracenoides is a complete stunner. It grows very slowly, but it has the most surreal nectar spoons and a beautiful rosette form. I can't wait to see this new pitcher open! 🌱

Some people only collect species, but this hybrid is one of my favorite plants...

Heliamphora neblinae x sarracenoides is a complete stunner. It grows very slowly, but it has the most surreal nectar spoons and a beautiful rosette form. I can't wait to see this new pitcher open!

#heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful #plantaddict #plants #terrariumplants #foliage

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Absolutely stunning bloom on this Lepanthes ortegae. 🌱 #orchids #plantphotography #nature #horticulture

What a tiny miracle! This amazing bloom is a Lepanthes ortegae that I received many months ago from my friend... Plants from friends are the best plants! I've been really enjoying my collection of Lepanthes, they are so sculptural and colorful!

#lepanthespecies #lepanthes #orchidspecies #orchids #orquideas #orchidée #orchidee #orchideen #orkide #anggrek #orchidphotography #plantphotography #miniatureorchids #miniatureorchidsofinstagram #orquideasminiaturas #orchidsofinstagram #flowers #foliage #natureisbeautiful #beautifulplants #orchidaddict #plantaddict #plants #terrariumplants #botany #horticulture #nature

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

One of my dream tepui plants and it's finally starting to bulk up, and honestly is probably ready for another repot soon! 🌱 Orectanthe aff. Sceptrum #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #plantphotography #botany #horticulture #nature

This plant and I have been on quite a journey! Well every plant has a story to tell amirite?

Well I received this plant as a propagation, it couldn't have been more then 3" across if that... and there wasn't a whole lot of info out there on how to cultivate it so, I put it in my standard heli mix, let it acclimate over months and was ready to put it in with the rest of my helis.

A few weeks go by and it doesn't look happy. I'm talking to the plant... what do you need? Do I need to be more gradual with you? Are you hungry? I gave it some root feeding and moved it in a more shady spot. I start getting some good growth, but a lot of leaf loss (which is to be expected as things senesce) but I knew it wasn't super happy and I kept being patient.

At this point I've had it for a year and it still hasn't taken off... I decide to give it a new pot, a 6" mesh pot, with loads of live sphag and I move it to an even shadier spot on the edge of the shelf underneath a massive folliculata.

I keep it sitting in water and spraying it occasionally with my special sky juice and mostly intentionally neglect it... and now that little tiny plant is almost 9" wide and tall!

One of my dream tepui plants and it's finally starting to bulk up, and honestly is probably ready for another repot soon!

I really do believe that most plants that are challenging just require us to be patient, observe, listen and let them mostly be!

It's beautiful green-gray striated leaves are as gorgeous as they are dangerous! I can't wait to see what it looks like in another 2 years!

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This insanely beautiful and delicate flower reminds me of a starfish! I've been collecting Lepanthes for about a year and I love their size and character... People often dissuaded me from keeping them, but I've found them to be fairly low maintenance w/ my culture. 🌱 #orchids #plantphotography

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

May The 4th Be With You! “Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. -Yoda 🌱 Heliamphora "Ewok" #plantphotography

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Color galore... this luscious and vibrant specimen is none other than heliamphora heterodoxa x minor! This was my very first plant in the genus which ushered me into this serene, peaceful and beautiful rabbit hole. 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #plantphotography #foliage #natureisbeautiful

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I just love the contrast of this new growth with the mature pitchers on this heliamphora pulchella AW - ISC. It's been a very vigorous grower for me, one of my tallest pulchellas and clumps like all the others. The venation is also spectacular! 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #plantphotography

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I was rewarded with a magnificent pitcher this week... I've had this plant for a little over 2 years, a beautiful hamata x edwardsiana from @floraecollaborative 🌱 #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful #nepenthes #plants

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Starting to get some new pitchers from this freshly acclimated heliamphora heterodoxa. Notice the mutated phyllodia in the bottom left? This happens sometimes when plants make new divisions or are freshly acclimating. 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #plantphotography

I love when these start to inflate! Starting to get some new pitchers from this freshly acclimated heliamphora heterodoxa. Notice the mutated phyllodia in the bottom left? This happens sometimes when plants make new divisions or are freshly acclimating. I've acquired several heterodoxa from various people and they all are stunning green with red edging. It is a beautiful species!

#heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful #plantaddict #plants #terrariumplants #foliage

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Several months ago I ventured into growing Lepanthes and I've been rewarded with some amazing blooms! Lepanthes echo #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful #lepanthes #orchids #flowers

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

"The true meaning of beauty is the feeling of joy and peace it brings to the heart." -Rumi A small collection of Heliamphora pulchella among the moss.🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful #plants

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

One of the most under rated species of Heliamphora. Upright and vigorous growth, a strong clumping habit and large flag shaped nectar spoons that ooze nectar. Heliamphora chimantensis 🌱 #heliamphora #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Why am I so into these plants? There's many reasons but at the end of the day it's really about cultivating beauty. Their colors and their forms are just mesmerizing. 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Plants go through phases, they change with the seasons and react to our care in various ways... all parts of nature's cadence and our horticultural practices. I've been waiting for this plant to show me what's locked inside it's genetic code. Heliamphora sarracenoides. 🌱 #heliamphora #botany

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The calcareous growths of this beautiful succulent are simply amazing... titanopsis primosii. 🌱 #succulents #mesembs #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Wonderful display of color today on this Heliamphora pulchella Amuri AW-ISC. Individual seed culture means that it is a plant that is genetically unique and was propagated in vitro. 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #botany #horticulture #plantscience #plantphotography #natureisbeautiful

Wonderful display of color today on this Heliamphora pulchella Amuri AW-ISC.

People often ask what exactly is an ISC? As I understand it, this plant classification means it is an individual seed culture, which means that it is a plant that is genetically unique and was propagated in vitro (also known as a flask). This may or may not include hormones to stimulate growth. Often times people value these types of plants because they are unique among other specific clones or selections. It has the draw of having a bit of mystery about its attributes, where as clones are selected for various phenotype distinctions.

Randomly selected clones (RSC) are plants that have been randomly selected from a pool of clones. They may have a designation (clone # or selection name) or they may be something not yet named.

Regardless this is absolutely stunner of a plant and does have some characteristics that are different then my other RSC and named clones.

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Several months ago this plant flowered and ceased all new growth. It really is amazing how long these pitchers can last, which can certainly be a blessing and a curse! Second photo is from 10 weeks ago. 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #plantphotography

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious... - Henry David Thoreau 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious... We can never have enough of nature.”

- Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

#heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

In the battle between hairy heliamphora and moss everyone wins. A culmination of intentional neglect and letting these guys just do their thing. 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Double blossom incoming on this Titanopsis calcorea ... I'm a big fan of this odd mesemb. 🌱 #cactus #succulent #mesemb #plantphotography #botany #horticulture #nature

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Joanne Manaster @sciencegoddess.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Plants & gardens The Light Eaters @zoeschlanger.bsky.social Gardening Can Be Murder, Marta McDowell Unrooted @erinzimmermannmk.bsky.social Most Delicious Poison, Noah Whitman The Garden Against Time, Olivia Laing A Natural History of Empty Lots @christopherbrown.bsky.social full titles in alt

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoe Schlanger

Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers by Marta McDowell

Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science by Erin Zimmerman

Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices by Noah Whitman

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing

A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places by Christopher Brown

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

One of nature's paintings... A surreal field of venation from the "Queen of Color", heliamphora Macdonaldae. 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #plantphotography #natureisbeautiful

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Behold, the power of adaptive evolution! Nature is absolutely wild. Detail of a very hairy pitcher emerging from a heliamphora parva Cerro Neblinae. 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #plantphotography

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

This plant boasts some of the most distinctive nectar spoons and it produces copious amount of nectar. This is a division from one of my favorite hybrids, heliamphora sarracenoides x minor burgundy black. 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This blue green iridescent beauty hails from the tepuis in the Guiana shield. One of the many heliamphora companion plants in the collection, Orectanthe sceptrum. 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #bromeliads #tillandsia #xyridaceae

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

This was my second heliamphrora I acquired and it changed the trajectory of my horticulture hobby. This vigorous, clumping pitcher plant has near spherical nectar spoons and amazing veination... heliamphora parva x pulchella ISC. 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #botany #horticulture #nature

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Definitely one of my favorites. The queen of color, heliamphora Macdonaldae. 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 13/12/2024

A23a has finally escaped the vortex! 🏊‍♀️🌀 The biggest iceberg in the world is on the move again after a casual half-year sabbatical spent spinning in circles. Our @magic.bas.ac.uk colleagues have illustrated A23's super circuitous 2024 journey via satellite imagery ⬇️ www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/w...

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

This dense grouping has a real party vibe going on right now, unfortunately that party is coming to an end later today! Time to lovingly rip apart this heliamphora heterodoxa x minor. It was good while it lasted! 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Someone got a bath! Nice cluster of off-shoot pups from a mature heliamphora neblinae JN. This particular plant has a very regal and upright growth habit, over-turned lip flare and a pronounced spoon. 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Surreal view of the inside of a very large (and old) heliamphora ionasi pitcher. 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This gold haired heliamphora produces very large, woody and bulbous pitchers with a sprawling "gangstah lean" growth habit. This is a relatively recent division of heliamphora ionasi "Yellow Stripe". 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

By far one of the cutest heliamphora. Diminutive in stature, readily clumping and absolutely adorable. This little fuzzy furball is none other then heliamphora "Ewok". 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience

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heliplants @heliplants.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I love watching the new pitchers inflate and unfurl... The interiors continue to develop and it's so satisfying to watch them surpass their previous growth with those leaf jumps. heliamphora parva Cerro Neblinae. 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience

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