Nepenthes x coccinea
- vines and climbers
- perennial
- 80 to 70ºF ZONE 14
- part sun
Tropical Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes x coccinea) is a lowland climber with yellow-green pitchers, to 6" long, mottled purple-red, with inflated bases and oblique mouths.
Care: It requires a minimum daytime temperature of 75ºF; night: 59ºF in winter, 70ºF in summer. Provide ventilation when over 100ºF. Indoors, grow in slatted baskets in a mix of 2 parts bark, 2 parts perlite, and 1 part coarse peat or coconut fiber, or in clean, live sphagnum moss. Provide bright filtered light, or full light with shade from hot sun, and high humidity. In summer, apply a high nitrogen liquid fertilizer weekly. Prune mature plants in spring, reducing stems by 2/3s of their length, to induce vigorous, pitcher producing shoots.
It is a Victorian-era hybrid (Nepenthes x dominii x Nepenthes mirabilis)
Source: Various sources including The American Horticultural Society A to Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, UWYO, UDEL and Harvard
- Less then 1 day ZONE 1
- 1 to 7 days ZONE 2
- 7 to 14 days ZONE 3
- 14 to 30 days ZONE 4
- 30 to 45 days ZONE 5
- 45 to 60 days ZONE 6
- 60 to 90 days ZONE 7
- 90 to 120 days ZONE 8
- 120 to 150 days ZONE 9
- 150 to 180 days ZONE 10
- 180 to 210 days ZONE 11
- Greater then 210 ZONE 12