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Nepenthes maximoides

Nepenthes maximoides is a climbing tropical pitcher plant from Luzon in the Philippines, notable for large, narrow upper pitchers that trap insects. Grow it warm and humid with bright light and wet roots, as a high-humidity greenhouse or terrarium plant.

Family
Nepenthaceae (Pitcher-plant family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep the root medium consistently moist, using rainwater or distilled water.
Soil
Free-draining mix of sphagnum moss and perlite or orchid bark.
Temperature
20–30 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Moderate
Safety
Not known to be toxic
Native range
Philippines (C. Luzon)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Nepenthes maximoides is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Luzon, Philippines bringing the total number of Nepenthes species in this island to eight, and is the only endemic species. Nepenthes maximoides closely resembled N. maxima in its large, spectacular and narrowly funnel-shaped upper pitchers, and the lids have a recurved basal and filiform appendages not seen in any other Philippine species.

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 maximoides 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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