Nepenthes latiffiana

A pitcher plant described in 2020 from a single small area in Setiu, Terengganu, in Peninsular Malaysia, named after the Malaysian botanist Abdul Latiff Mohamad. Its lower pitchers are peachy green-yellow-brown with red blotches, and the upper pitchers have distinctive flap-like expansions on the sides of the peristome. It grows at about 1000–1100 m, so it should suit intermediate conditions, but it is barely known in cultivation.

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 periodClimber

Where it grows wild

It climbs through the understorey on rocky hill slopes, among montane scrub with the ferns Dicranopteris linearis and Dipteris conjugata, rattans, Pandanus and Leptospermum flavescens. This is open, stunted vegetation on poor rocky soil, where the plant gets bright but broken light.

Known only from about 1000–1100 m at the type locality.

Peninsular Malaysia

🔒 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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