Nepenthes ventricosa
A highland tropical pitcher plant endemic to the Philippines, mainly the mountains of Luzon, where it grows in mossy oak forest and readily colonises disturbed, open ground at roughly 600–2000 m. Its hourglass-waisted pitchers are ivory to red. It is one of the most forgiving Nepenthes in cultivation, growing in intermediate to highland conditions, but it still does best with cool nights, bright light and pure water.
Where it grows wild
Grows in mossy oak forest and at its edges, and on open, disturbed slopes and roadcuts, often on mafic or ultramafic soils. It is a terrestrial scrambler or an epiphyte in the moss of trees, and is common where land has been cleared in the northern Luzon mountains.
Literature gives 1000–2000 m, or 600–2000 m on Philippineplants.
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