African Violets and Gesneriads: O/T Please show us your favorite non-gesnariads!, 1 by junglebob

junglebob wrote:
just got this nepenthes alata (hanging pitcher plant) at walmart...they usually are quite expensive but got a nice sized one for 9.95 .carniverous plants..pitchers trap little bugs
might be great around av's....


Nepenthes alata Blano


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Common Name: Winged Nepenthes
Family: Nepenthaceae Dumort.

Country of Origin: Borneo, Malaysia, Philippines & Sumatra
Habitat: mossy forest between 800 and 2000 m

Description: Carnivorous climbing vine to 4m high. Passive pitfall traps produced at the tips of the leaves trap and digest small insects. Colour of the pitchers light-green, often with light or dark-red or violet spots.
Nepenthes alata, like most species of Nepenthes is a mountain plant occuring in the mossy forest between 800 and 2000 m above the sea level. In Sumatra it grows from the rocks along the coast up to a height of 1600 m ; its habitat is the forest or its margin, rarely open ground.

Culture: Exposure- Half Shade
Cultivation- in pots or hanging baskets
Humidity- High
Temperature- 10C to 25C