Nepenthes Campanulata Cultivation

Nepenthes campanulata is an easy lowland plant which grows very well as an intermediate.

Cultivating Ease - Easy

Type - Although this plant is a true lowland, it grows very well as an intermediate.

Temperature - Daytime temperatures can range from 80-95 degrees. Nighttimes temps between 60 degrees and 80 degrees.

Humidity -  I would recommend keeping the humidity above 75%, espcially if the plant is small.

Light - Bright light to full  (diffused) sunlight.  Growing on the side of limestone cliffs, it is accustomed to very high light levels in the wild.

Moisture - Keep the plant moist.

Soil - Long Fiber Sphagnum

Size - The plant basically stays in a rosette to ever slightly climbing. It's permanent compact growth makes it an ideal chamber or terrarium plant.

Details: An easy plant that produces beautifully shaped pitchers with wide flaring mouths, they somewhat resemble Heliamphora pitchers in shape to me. This plant was once thought to have been possibly extinct in the wild after forest fires in the mid-1980's wiped out the only known site for the plant. Additional locations have been found, but the plant is still extremely rare in the wild. It entered cultivation in the year 2000, where its ease of cultivation should enable us from totally losing this plant from the face of the earth, even if it does become extinct in the wild.

Propagation -  Unkown, but I am betting that cuttings will be easy. Cuttings will be slightly difficult to take, given the very compact nature of the plant..

Forms - I only know of the typical form, and a slight color "tinged" form, and with only very limited field locations, there may not be much variability within this species.