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Nepenthes weda

Nepenthes weda
Photo: Muhammad ECTOR Prasetyo from Pamiers, Toulouse, France, CC BY 2.0

Nepenthes weda is a climbing tropical pitcher plant from Halmahera, Indonesia, known only from a single montane forest site. It is a cool-to-intermediate highland species that needs bright light, high humidity and consistently moist, airy growing conditions.

Family
Nepenthaceae (Pitcher-plant family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep the medium constantly moist using rainwater or distilled water, and never let it dry out completely.
Soil
Free-draining mix of sphagnum moss and perlite or orchid bark.
Temperature
15–26 °C; cooler nights are beneficial; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Maluku (Halmahera)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Nepenthes weda is a tropical pitcher plant native to the island of Halmahera, North Maluku, Indonesia. It is currently known only from Bukit Limber, Weda Bay (near the centre of the island), where it grows in lower montane forest on ultramafic substrates at 415–1,014 m above sea level.

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 weda 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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