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Nepenthes thorelii

Nepenthes thorelii
Photo: François MEY, CC BY 3.0

Nepenthes thorelii is a rare tropical pitcher plant from southern Vietnam, known from very little and probably not in cultivation. Little is documented about how to grow it, so care advice here is largely inferred from related Nepenthes.

Family
Nepenthaceae (Pitcher-plant family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the medium constantly moist and use rainwater or distilled water, since it grows in wet-season conditions.
Soil
Free-draining, low-nutrient mix such as sphagnum moss with perlite or peat-based blend.
Temperature
20–30 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
S. Vietnam
Climate
wet tropical

About

Nepenthes thorelii is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Indochina. Very little is known about N. thorelii and it is unlikely to have entered cultivation, although various other taxa are often mislabelled as this species in the plant trade. Prior to its rediscovery in 2011, N. thorelii was considered possibly extinct, both in the wild and in cultivation.

Where it grows

Nepenthes thorelii is known with certainty only from Vietnam, where the type specimen was collected.

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 thorelii 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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