This carnivorous rhizomatous perennial produces slender twining stems and ground level leafy rosettes. It has long glossy green leathery leaves and produces terrestrial and aerial green to reddish pitchers to trap insects during summer.

Hardiness zones 10 to 12

Nepenthes ampullariais naturally found from Malaysia to Borneo, New Guinea, Sumatra and Singapore growing in wet tropical forests.

It prefers an organic rich moist, peaty soil that is tending acidic in a protected semi shaded to bright filtered light, position and is frost and drought tender, requiring warm temperatures and high humidity.

This Tropical Pitcher Plant is grown for its pitchers and its clumping-twining habit. It is planted in tropical settings to climb through trees or over structures or is grown in hanging baskets. It is alsoused as a potted plant in botanical collections and grown under glass or in a conservatory in cold climates. It establishes from division in 2 to 3 years and is moderately long lived.ID 2789

Nepenthes(nay-PEN-theez) ampullaria (am-pul-AH-ria)

Nepenthaceae(NEP-en-THAY-see-ee)
Pitcher Plant