Accession Data

Nepenthes alata

Common Name: Winged Nepenthes

Family: Nepenthaceae

Country of Origin: Borneo, Malaysia, Philippines & Sumatra

Description: Carnivorous climbing vine to 4m high. Passive pitfall traps produced at the tips of the leaves trap and digest small insects. Colour of the pitchers light-green, often with light or dark-red or violet spots.

Nepenthes alata, like most species of Nepenthes is a mountain plant occuring in the mossy forest between 800 and 2000 m above the sea level. In Sumatra it grows from the rocks along the coast up to a height of 1600 m ; its habitat is the forest or its margin, rarely open ground.

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 11

Accession #: 199700034

Accession Date: 1997-05-12 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1216

Quantity: 4

Source: J. Stein - MSU

Culture: Highland and Lowland forms exist

Exposure - Half Shade
Cultivation- in pots or hanging baskets
Humidity- High
Temperature- 10C to 25C

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: core eudicots

Order: Caryophyllales

Family: Nepenthaceae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
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References

  1. Dragon Agro Website
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 19 May 2015.

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