… All Nepenthes have a similar passive pitfall trap that develops with a closed trap, and as the trap matures the ‘lid’ opens up. It is certainly a Nepenthes species and certainly looks like an authentic image. We emailed Clinton Morse, the living plant collections manager at the University of Connecticut’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, to ask about the photograph, and he told us: Though the provenance of the image shown above is uncertain, we have no reason to doubt this is an authentic photograph of a plant that belonging to the Nepenthes genus.
These posts all described the plant as belonging to the Nepenthes genus. In March 2019, images of a plant dubbed a “penis flytrap” - a play on words that evokes the comparatively less phallic Venus flytrap ( Dionaea muscipula) - went viral.
