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Pitcher plant

Nepenthes ramispina

Pitcher plant
Photo: Kenneth Hiew Jian Wei, CC BY 3.0

Nepenthes ramispina is a highland tropical pitcher plant from Peninsular Malaysia, a climbing shrub that catches insects in its pitchers. It needs bright light, humid air and a cool, wet root zone to do well.

Family
Nepenthaceae (Pitcher-plant family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep the medium constantly moist with rainwater or distilled water; avoid tap water high in minerals.
Soil
Long-fibred sphagnum moss mixed with perlite or orchid bark, kept wet and well drained.
Temperature
15–25 °C; avoid sustained temperatures above 30 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Pen. Malaysia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Nepenthes ramispina (; from Latin ramus "branch" and spina "spine, spur") is a highland Nepenthes pitcher plant species, native to Peninsular Malaysia. It was once regarded as being similar to N. gracillima, but studies of the two species in nature have shown that they are readily distinguishable in isolation, N. gracillima being far more readily confused with N. macfarlanei in its rosette stage.

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 ramispina 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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