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Pitcher plant

Nepenthes boschiana

Pitcher plant
Photo: Stewart McPherson, CC BY-SA 3.0

Nepenthes boschiana is a tropical pitcher plant from the Meratus Mountains of South Kalimantan, Borneo, and is grown as a climbing or epiphytic carnivorous plant. Success depends on warm, humid conditions with bright light and a pot that never dries out.

Family
Nepenthaceae (Pitcher-plant family)
Grows as
Epiphyte
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep the medium constantly moist using rainwater or distilled water, and never let it dry out completely.
Soil
Mix of sphagnum moss and perlite or orchid bark, low in nutrients.
Temperature
20–30 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
S. Borneo
Climate
wet tropical

About

Nepenthes boschiana (; after Johannes van den Bosch), or Bosch's pitcher-plant, is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to the Meratus Mountains in South Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. It is most closely allied to N. faizaliana. Nepenthes borneensis is considered a synonym of this species. Nepenthes boschiana has no known natural hybrids. No valid forms or varieties have been described. Nepenthes boschiana belongs to the loosely defined "N. maxima complex", which also includes, among other species, N. chaniana, N. epiphytica, N. eymae, N. faizaliana, N. fusca, N. klossii, N. maxima, N. platychila, N. stenophylla, and N. vogelii.

The species was formally described by Pieter Willem Korthals in his 1839 monograph, "Over het geslacht Nepenthes". B. H.

Other Nepenthes plants

Nepenthes abalata · Nepenthes abgracilis · Nepenthes adnata · Nepenthes aenigma · Nepenthes alata · Nepenthes alba · Nepenthes albomarginata · Nepenthes alfredoi · Nepenthes alzapan · Flask-Shaped Pitcher-Plant · Nepenthes andamana · Nepenthes angasanensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nepenthes boschiana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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