If you are so inclined to share a piece, your neighbor should find it easy to propagate.

There are quite a few plants that produce resins and substances that trap animals and insects for various purposes. Carnivorous plants are marked by a particular set of capabilities. 1. Ability to attract it's prey through scent, nectar, and coloration. Something derived from it's ability to attract pollinators. 2. Ability to trap prey with static or mobile traps derived from quick growth, like the mimosas have in response to touch, or adapted from leaf patterns that were more difficult for prey to escape, like some flowers that produce interlocking patterns to keep pollinators inside longer to ensure pollination. 3. Ability to produce their own digestive enzymes with or without bacterial assitance. Even the Purple Pitcher Plant, a Sarracenia that uses rain water and bacterial action to help it kill and break down prey produces some digestive enzyme on it's own. There are some plants, like Roridula, that can capture insects, but not digest them. Such plants sometimes use symbiotic relationships to aid in breaking down the prey, like beetles that eat the trapped insects and then leave droppings on the plant leaves as fertilizer. They would not be true carnivores, but are interesting nontheless. There is actually a mythical plant that is supposed to live in South America that natives there designate as an "evil spirit tree." Supposedly it grows in an area where there is no other vegitation under it for a radius and often bones are found in the soil around it's trunk. It is purported that the tree drops sap from it's leaves that is a contact poison that can kill animals and people that remain under the tree for too long. The result is a rotting, fertilizer rich loam for the plant's roots. I have seen stories of this plant in a couple of different sources, but nothing definitive, so it is just a myth so far. The N. rajah is a finicky plant, but if you can give it the temperature and humidity it demands, it can be grown. It is one of the most demanding and temperamental of the Nepenthes.

Plants..Why do you plant them in such huge pots? If you are using very porous mixes that would be ok, but if potting soil or mix in which particles are very small, you could loose a few..Maybe this was the problem.. If you are using the common bagged mix sold at store or nurseries, why not use a smaller pot to discourage root rot and encourage the roots to fill the container while your plant can also focus on top growth... Also you must fertilize on a regular basis to encourage root mass and girth above the soil line in your pots.. They do take forever to grow if not provided the very right conditions which = consistent good sunlight, fertilizer and a porous mix..if you get winter like me, they will take twice as long to grow verses anyone living south in warmer climates and a higher angle to the sun all year. Mike MIke

We need to see flowers :-) Few clematis can be identified only from foliage and those tend to be species forms, not the hybrids most grow.