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Compost: Typical
highland.
Watering: Typical. Cultivation Difficulty: Moderate(2); needs nocturnal cooling. Propagation: Has proven difficult to root. Distribution: Sumatra.1 Ecology: Lower and upper montane forest; 1000-2700 m.1 |
| N. bongso lower pitcher |
| This species is quite beautiful. Its leaves are thick and rubbery, and pitchers are rather stout. In bright light, the pitcher peristome darkens considerably over a period of about two weeks, until it is nearly black. Its rate of growth is steady; we have grown this plant from 4 cm diameter to full size in approximately two years. |
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| 1C. Clarke, Nepenthes of Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu, 2001, p. 112. |