Nepenthes Liliputien

Nepenthes Liliputien.
Watercolor, graphite pens, coloured pencil
35 X 30 cm

This little dragon, can reach, for the rarest and the biggest specimens, 50 cms. Their lap pocket coated with sticky liquid catches its preys which he digests not enough time. It does not move except its roots and is a dragon of type sleeper. He is only evoking his presence by rustles of leaves. When the prey is too big to be dissolved slowly, he snatches her and cuts her in two. The tasks on his body he serve as location enter congener. He can arrive that a nest of roots form and that some of them are present on the same area of hunting. They put years to be increased, but their slow life allows them to live for a very long time. His need of sun is so big as leaves push only to the dorsal level or roots. It is an edible dragon, only if he is picked during rainy season, when he is vulnerable and where his poison is not corrosive any more. However you will have stomach pains because the skin is a spinner once cooked, and she can secrete one fatal spore in the body.