Nepenthes lowii
An upper-montane pitcher plant from a handful of isolated peaks in northern Borneo, famous for its waisted pitchers that work as toilets for mountain treeshrews. It grows on cool, cloudy, mossy ridge-tops, and in cultivation it needs cool nights, high humidity and patience.
Where it grows wild
It climbs through mossy forest and stunted ridge-top scrub in the upper montane zone. It grows both in the ground and as an epiphyte, rooted in a thick layer of peat moss over ultramafic, sandstone, granite and limestone rock. Adult upper pitchers are visited by treeshrews, which feed on the nectar on the lid and leave droppings that supply most of the plant's nitrogen.
Wikipedia gives 1650–2600 m. The 9 records with an elevation span 2070–2972 m, median 2340 m.
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