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Nepenthes sumagaya

Nepenthes sumagaya
Photo: Andreas Wistuba, CC BY 3.0

Nepenthes sumagaya is a climbing tropical pitcher plant known only from Mount Sumagaya in north-central Mindanao, Philippines. It is grown by carnivorous plant enthusiasts and needs cool, humid, bright conditions with high-elevation-type care.

Family
Nepenthaceae (Pitcher-plant family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Light
Bright indirect, Part shade
Water
Keep the medium constantly moist with rainwater or distilled water, never letting it dry out completely.
Soil
Open, well-draining mix of sphagnum moss and perlite or orchid bark; no fertilizer or standard potting soil.
Temperature
Cool to intermediate, roughly 12–24 °C; avoid sustained heat above 30 °C and protect below 8 °C.
How easy
Hard
Safety
Not known to be toxic
Native range
Philippines (NC. Mindanao)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Nepenthes sumagaya is a tropical pitcher plant native to the Philippines. It is known only from Mount Sumagaya in north-central Mindanao, where it grows in open areas at elevations from 1,600 m above sea level to the summit at 2,247 m. It is sympatric with N. pantaronensis and possible hybrids between these species have been recorded. Owing to its unusual combination of morphological characters, N. sumagaya has no obvious close relatives in the genus.

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 sumagaya 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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