Nepenthes erucoides
A pitcher plant described in 2019, known only from the summit zone of Mount Redondo on Dinagat Island in the Philippines. Its new leaves and tendrils are densely hairy, like caterpillars. It grows in elfin forest on an unusually harsh ultramafic substrate of nickel laterite and chromite rubble. It is an intermediate-elevation plant that needs warm days, mild nights, high humidity and a very lean, free-draining mix.
Where it grows wild
It grows in stunted elfin forest from about 800 m to the 929 m summit of Mount Redondo, on lateritic nickel ore, decomposed chromite rubble and the clay derived from them. This is described as the most extreme ultramafic substrate known to host Nepenthes. It grows alongside other Nepenthes species at different elevations and hybridises with N. mindanaoensis.
It is known only from about 800 to 929 m, the summit of Mount Redondo.
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