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Carnivorous Little published: much of this is inferred from related species

Nepenthes kongkandana

A lowland pitcher plant from Songkhla Province in southern Thailand, described by Catalano and Kruetreepradit in 2015 and closely related to N. kerrii. It has tubular pitchers with a low hip and short tendrils. Very little has been published about its habitat, so its care here is inferred from its close relative and from the lowland climate of the Thai peninsula.

Nepenthes kongkandana
Photo: Marcello Catalano, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

Published details of its habitat are scarce. Its closest relative, N. kerrii, grows on the ground in open savanna and grassland on sandy, quartz-rich soil that bakes hard in the dry season, and a natural hybrid with the lowland N. mirabilis is known, which points to open, wet, low-elevation ground where both species meet. Treat it as a sun-loving lowland terrestrial until better field notes exist.

No elevation is recorded in the sources we could reach. Songkhla is mostly lowland and low hills; its relative N. kerrii grows at 400–500 m. Assume lowland to low hills, below about 600 m.

Thailand (Songkhla Province, peninsular Thailand)

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 3.0 licence, unmodified.