Uploaded May 2020 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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A lecture about the spectacular Heliamphora pitcher plants that grow across the Guiana Highlands of Venezuela and borderlands of Guyana and Brazil.

Heliamphora is a genus of spectacular carnivorous plants that produce pitchers up to 40 cm tall. Most species grow atop of the tepui (tepuy) mountains, South America's so-called "lost worlds".

These amazing carnivorous plants are among the least known of all insect-eating plants and many species have only ever been seen on a couple of occasions.

In this lecture, Stewart McPherson takes you on a journey to see all Heliamphora species in the wild!

The species covered in this talk are:

Heliamphora arenicola
Heliamphora ceracea
Heliamphora chimantensis
Heliamphora ciliata
Heliamphora collina
Heliamphora elongata
Heliamphora exappendiculata
Heliamphora folliculata
Heliamphora glabra
Heliamphora heterodoxa
Heliamphora hispida
Heliamphora huberi
Heliamphora ionasi
Heliamphora macdonaldae
Heliamphora minor
Heliamphora neblinae
Heliamphora nutans
Heliamphora parva
Heliamphora pulchella
Heliamphora purpurascens
Heliamphora sarracenioides
Heliamphora tatei
Heliamphora uncinata

Heliamphora sp. 'Akopán Tepui'
Heliamphora sp. 'Angasima Tepui'

Edited by Rohan Holt ( Cloudbase Productions cloudbasepro.co.uk )