N. eymae (upper pitcher)
purchase date: 3 / 02
arrived as a rooted cutting
plant origin: unsure, CP Jungle (Exotica Plants most likely)
photo taken: 8 / 03

Nepenthes eymae is polymorphic? I tried to be scientific. It has lower and upper pitcher differences. I think the upper pitchers, like the one pictured at the top, are more desirable. I have several plants the I grow. The top plant purchased from the CP Jungle has never produced lower pitchers because it was purchased as a rooted cutting. It finally has produced sideshoots and is really vining. The plant is about 4 ft. long and just keeps on vining. I've cut it back a few times but not much because I want it to flower but so far it hasn't. 

One of my other varieties I got from a private grower in trade. It was sent to me as a side-shoot with no roots. It had a woody stem which for me makes it difficult to root. I root my cuttings in glasses of water on windowsills. The nice green stem cuttings do well for me when I am rooting them. After about a month or so, the base of the cutting started blackening and I feared it was dying so I put it in moss and moved it outdoors to see what would happen. It ended up rooting and growing! I'd given this plant up for dead. Now it is growing in full sun in a hanging basket and doing great.

I also have the Wistuba clone I got from Exotic Plants Plus. This plant is starting to get larger but it is still producing only lower pitchers. All of my N. eymaes are easy to grow and do quite well outdoors. Since the upper pitchers are generally considered more showy, paying extra for a rooted cutting will cut years off waiting for a smaller plant to grow out until it is large enough to produce them.

Cultivation: easy; moderate grower but much quicker in the vining stage
Market availability: size 2, size 3, to  rooted cuttings; small plants are common, rooted cuttings are limited
Species variability: none that I'm aware of other than locality names
$ / size: moderate; $25.00- $35.00 and up for larger plants and rooted cuttings
Cuttings: available at times for trade (Exotica Plants clone)
Sex: unknown