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

Nepenthes tboli

A critically endangered highland pitcher plant from southern Mindanao, known only from a few specimens collected around the crater lake of Mount Parker (Mount Melibengoy) in T'boli, South Cotabato. Almost nothing about its ecology has been published, so it should be grown like other Philippine highland Nepenthes: warm days, cool nights, high humidity and bright filtered light.

Nepenthes tboli
Photo: Nielbert Raner, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry
Light Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

The type was collected in 1993 around Lake Parker (Lake Holon/Maughan), a crater lake inside the caldera of the active Mount Melibengoy volcano. Published accounts give no detail of the microhabitat; highland Mindanao Nepenthes typically scramble through shrubby vegetation, forest edges and open mossy forest, and this is assumed rather than documented for N. tboli.

Type locality at about 1,463 m; the volcano's summit is about 1,784–1,824 m, so the species is a highland plant.

Philippines (Mindanao)

🔒 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 4.0 licence, unmodified.