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Compost:
Typical
highland.
Watering: Reputed to grow in areas of heavy rainfall; ours are watered through daily. Cultivation Difficulty: Moderate (2); very slow growing, like N. lowii. Possibly more sensitive to drying of compost than most species. Propagation: Cuttings are slow to root, but not difficult. Distribution: Borneo; apparently widespread in the mountains of central Borneo.1 Ecology: Ridge-top vegetation in mossy forest, 1000-1900 m.1,2 |
| N. ephippiata lower pitcher | N. ephippiata upper pitcher |
| Closely related to N. lowii, N. ephippiata is still fairly rare in cultivation. It grows at a rate similar to N. lowii, but may be a bit slower. After nearly two and a half years, our plants are no more than 25 cm in diameter. It appears that little is known about this species, and few people have seen it in the wild. This plant seems to respond well to feeding with insects. |
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| 1C.
Clarke, Nepenthes of Borneo, Kota
Kinabalu, 1997, p. 83.
2M. Jebb and M. Cheek, A Skeletal Revision of Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae), Blumea 42(1), 1997, p. 38. |