Nepenthes mindanaoensis
A Philippine pitcher plant of the N. alata group, with winged leaf stalks and upper pitchers that are widest near the base. It comes from Mindanao and Dinagat. Dated herbarium records place it in lower and upper montane rainforest at about 1470–1500 m, and photo records suggest it also grows lower down on Dinagat and in Davao Oriental. In cultivation it behaves as an intermediate grower: warm days, noticeably cooler nights, bright light and high humidity.
Where it grows wild
It grows as a terrestrial plant and as a hemiepiphyte, with stems scrambling up to about 2 m into shrubs and trees. It is found in montane rainforest on clay and humus soils on moderate to steep slopes. On Mt Hamiguitan a label records upper montane rain forest on clay at a 30–60° slope. On Mt Limbawon in Bukidnon it was found in lower montane forest on humus.
The four records with an elevation lie at 1219–1497 m, median 1470 m. Observations on Dinagat, where the hills are low, show that it also grows well below this, but those records have no elevation.
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