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Compost:
Typical.
Watering: Typical. Cultivation Difficulty: Moderate (2); can be damaged by abrupt fluctuations in humidity or cool temperatures. Propagation: No experience. Distribution: Sri Lanka.1 Ecology: Cleared areas, soggy open scub, open forested areas; 0-700 m.1 |
| N. distillatoria lower pitcher |
| Small and colorful, N.distillatoria is available in a number of different color varieties, with the red variety shown. Pitchers of this species seem rather short-lived in environments with fluctuating humidity, and are very thin-walled. However, plants grow fairly rapidly, and remain reasonably small. |
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| 1 M. Jebb and M. Cheek, A Skeletal Revision of Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae), Blumea 42(1), 1997, p. 36. |