Your Guide to Growing Carnivorous Plants
Everyday grow tips and tricks!
Nepenthes
Native range: Borneo
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Elevation: 1200-1500 m
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Utricularia
Native range, elevation:
gymnamphora: Java and Sumatra, 600–2,800 m
boschiana: Borneo, 1200-1800 m
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N. veitchii
N. gymnaphora x boschiana
Native range: Sumatra
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Elevation: 1700-2200 m
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Native range: Borneo
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Elevation: 300-500 m
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Native range, elevation:
ventricosa: Philippines, 1,000–2,000 m
ampullaria: Borneo, the Maluku Islands, New Guinea, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, and Thailand
Native range, elevation
ventrata: Philippines,
alata: Philippines, 0-1900 m
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Native range, elevation
maxima: New Guinea, Sulawesi, Maluku Islands, 40-2600 m
northiana: Borneo, 0-500 m
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About Nepenthes
Native range, elevation:
burbidgeae: Sabah, Bornea, 1200-1800m
platychila: Sarawak, 900-1400 m
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Nepenthes sex
Did you know, all tropical pitcher plants are either male or female? In cultivation, males are more common.
Types of pitchers
Most Nepenthes have two pitcher types, upper and lower. Lower pitchers tend to be larger and more elaborate.
Upper pitchers are more slender and less colorful.
Watering!
Nepenthes typically do not like very wet feet, water them from above until they sit in about a half inch of distilled water. Let the water evaporate before watering from the top again.