This species employs an 'aquaplaning' trapping mechanism (whereby prey animals slip into the pitchers on the downwards-pointing hairs, which are significantly more slippy when wet) similar to that of many tropical pitcher plants of the genus Nepenthes.[5][6]
Heliamphora nutans at Kew Gardens, London
Heliamphora nutans growing on Mount Roraima in Venezuela
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