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Ornamental - Popular ornamental plant used to add color and texture to gardens. Medicine - Traditional medicine to treat various ailments such as fever, cough, and colds.
Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal
Thrives in damp, cool bogs and seeps, prefers acidic soil with plenty of moisture, often found near streams or wet meadows, at an elevation of 2000-3300 m.
It is a herbaceous perennial meaning it emerges year after year from underground rhizomes. It grows in a clumping form with multiple pitcher-like leaves rising from a central point.
Stem is slender, striped, and speckled. This unique pattern evokes the texture of real snake skin, adding to the plant's cobra-like theme.
Leaves are usual 2, digitately compound, with 5 or more thick, glossy, narrow elliptic leaflets 6-12 cm. The leaf stalk mottled with pink and brown,
Flowers are tiny and greenish-yellow, residing on a stalk called the spadix nestled within the wide-mouthed pitcher.
Fruit is capsule-like that mature into brown fruit. This fruit contain numerous tiny seeds that disperse to ensure the continuation of this captivating carnivorous plant.
Flowering: April-June.