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Pitcher perfect

MOUNT KINABALU, BORNEO

As a child I was obsessed with plants. I conjured up a cloud forest in a fish tank, and grew my favourites: – a genus of carnivorous plants from South-East Asia. I would inhale gulpfuls of its mossy air, close my eyes, and dream I capital of the world, and home to the largest of them all: the king pitcher plant ().

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