When you use a bone meal on a pitcher plant that is below another block, it can create an age 2 pitcher plant that is missing it's top half.
What I expected:
Pitcher plant cannot age past age 1.
What happened:
Pitcher plant became age 2 and lost it's top half.
Note that this takes a few tries.
age 2 pitcher plant does not normally have a top half - you can see this if you look at the top half of the block - it only appears if age is 3 or 4