Nepenthes albomarginata
A small-pitchered climbing Nepenthes of Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra, named for the band of white hairs just below the peristome, which attracts the termites it specialises in catching. It is mainly a lowland plant of kerangas (heath) forest and scrubby lowland summits, growing mostly between sea level and a few hundred metres. Grow it warm, humid and bright, in an open, acidic, nutrient-poor mix.
Where it grows wild
It grows in kerangas (tropical heath) forest on poor, acidic white sands and in the summit vegetation of low peaks, scrambling through low scrub and climbing to about 4 m. It is also recorded on peat and on limestone, so it tolerates a range of soils as long as they are open and wet. Kerangas is stunted, fairly open vegetation, so the plants usually sit in bright, broken light rather than deep forest shade.
Literature gives sea level to about 1,200 m. The wild records run from 30 to 1,100 m with a median of only 120 m, so it is essentially a lowland species that reaches into the lower hills.
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