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Compost: Typical.
Watering: Typical. Cultivation Difficulty: Moderate (2); nocturnal cooling is essential, but tolerates daytime temps as high as 27 C. Propagation: No experience. Distribution: Borneo.1 Ecology: Mossy forest; 2200-2400 m.1 |
| N. macrophylla lower pitcher |
| Once considered synonymous with N. edwardsiana,2 this species is truly fantastic. Few other Nepenthes offer the grower such a striking and fantastic peristome. Furthermore, based upon our experience to date, it seems no more demanding than many other highland Nepenthes. Rate of growth is fairly rapid, with plants increasing in size roughly sixfold in approximately 20 months. |
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Clarke, Nepenthes of Borneo, Kota
Kinabalu, 1997, p. 99.
2Ibid., p. 99. |