Species · genus Nepenthes · Nepenthaceae

Tropical Pitcherplant

Nepenthes mirabilis (Lour.) Druce

Also known as: Common Swamp Pitcher-Plant · Pitcher-Plant

Growth habit

liana

Native range

Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Is., China Southeast, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam

Reference · N. mirabilis

Cultivars of N. mirabilis

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under N. mirabilis yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.

Nepenthes mirabilis is a tropical pitcher-plant liana from the warm, humid lowlands of Southeast Asia and the western Pacific, where it scrambles through bright, open vegetation. It grows in nutrient-poor, perpetually moist ground, so keep the mineral-free mix (rainwater or distilled only) lightly and evenly damp, watering when the surface just begins to feel dry rather than letting it dry out fully. Give bright indirect light and consistently high humidity to support pitcher formation.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 2-5d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 5 days

Humidity

High

Temperature

18–32 °C

Soil mix

Nutrient-poor mix of sphagnum and perlite

Propagation

Stem cuttings or basal offshoots

Fertilizing

None to the soil; feeds itself by catching insects

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

Rarely flowers indoors; blooms are inconspicuous

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Not yet documented

This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

Reference images

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 2-5d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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