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Nepenthes paniculata

Nepenthes paniculata
Photo: Thomas Gronemeyer, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nepenthes paniculata is a tropical climbing pitcher plant from the Pitcher-plant family, known from a mountain in western New Guinea. It needs warm, humid conditions and bright light, and does best in a terrarium or greenhouse setting.

Family
Nepenthaceae (Pitcher-plant family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep the growing medium consistently moist with rainwater or distilled water, never letting it dry out completely.
Soil
Long-fibre sphagnum moss or a peat and perlite mix; avoid garden soil and fertilisers.
Temperature
Warm, around 18–28 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
W. New Guinea
Climate
wet tropical

About

Nepenthes paniculata (; from Latin panicula "panicle") is a tropical pitcher plant belonging to the genus Nepenthes.

Where it grows

Nepenthes paniculata is probably endemic to Doorman Top, a mountain in New Guinea (03°28′01″S 138°26′59″E). In recent times it has been recorded from mossy forest on a ridge top at 1,460 m altitude.

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 paniculata 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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