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Compost:
Typical
lowland.
Watering: Fairly typical, although this plant may need more frequent watering than most. Cultivation Difficulty: Easy (1); one of the most cold tolerant Nepenthes known, and easily accepts a broad range of conditions. Propagation: Fairly easy from cuttings. Distribution: India, Bengal: Jyntea and Khasia Mountains.1 Ecology: Margins of forested areas; 1000 m.1 |
| N. khasiana lower pitcher |
| The only Nepenthes species native to India, N. khasiana is a remarkably plastic plant, able to adjust to a wide variety of climatic conditions. It is considered the most cold-tolerant Nepenthes, and is reported to be able to withstand temperatures as low as -2 C. We have grown it successfully in both highland and lowland environments, although we believe that it is happier in highland to intermediate conditions. It has a reputation for being hard to reproduce from cuttings, but we have found that it is not too difficult, provided that one uses a rooting hormone. This species is a very rapid grower; one can obtain more than a meter of vine in one year under good conditions. |
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| 1 M. Jebb and M. Cheek, A Skeletal Revision of Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae), Blumea 42(1), 1997, p. 36. |