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Pitcher plant

Nepenthes pervillei

Also called Seychelles Pitcher Plant

Pitcher plant
Photo: Urs Zimmermann, Switzerland (www.nepenthes.ch), CC BY 3.0

Nepenthes pervillei, the Seychelles pitcher plant, is a carnivorous climbing species endemic to Mahé and Silhouette in the Seychelles, growing on rocky granitic slopes. Grow it in bright, humid conditions with consistently moist, nutrient-poor media and high humidity.

Family
Nepenthaceae (Pitcher-plant family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Bright indirect, Part shade
Water
Keep the root medium consistently moist, using rainwater or distilled water rather than hard tap water.
Soil
Free-draining, nutrient-poor mix such as sphagnum moss with perlite or orchid bark; avoid fertilised compost.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 15 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Seychelles (Mahé, Silhouette)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Nepenthes pervillei (; after Auguste Pervillé, French plant collector) is the only pitcher plant found in the Seychelles, where it is endemic to the islands of Mahé and Silhouette. It grows in rocky areas near granitic mountain summits, its roots reaching deep into rock fissures. The species has an altitudinal range of 350–750 m above sea level. Like all members of the genus, N. pervillei is dioecious, having separate male and female plants.

The mite Creutzeria seychellensis has been found in the pitchers of N. pervillei.

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 pervillei 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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