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Nepenthes harauensis

Nepenthes harauensis is a tropical pitcher plant from the Harau valley of West Sumatra, a climbing or sprawling shrub that traps insects in its pitchers. It needs warm, humid conditions and bright light.

Family
Nepenthaceae (Pitcher-plant family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep the medium constantly moist and use rainwater or distilled water, since it dislikes mineral salts.
Soil
Wet mix of sphagnum moss and perlite or orchid bark; never garden soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. Sumatera
Climate
wet tropical

About

Nepenthes harauensis is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to the Harau region of West Sumatra. Nepenthes harauensis is closely allied in its morphology to N. bongso and N. singalana, however, it differs by its leaf characters that is thickly coriaceous and petiolate, elliptic-oblong in shape, and distinctive peltate tendril insertion.

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 harauensis 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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