Plant on the Brink of Extinction

Nepenthes

Nepenthes is a unique plant. This carnivorous plants including rare plants are protected, it is because Nepenthes / bag semar increasingly scarce due to the clearing of forests and the many people who hunt existence, without trying to preserve it.

In Indonesia many names given to these carnivorous plants, there is a call pocket semar, stoneware monkey, monkey bag, ketakung, sorok king spells and much more. The vines are living in damp soils that fewer nutrients food / nutrient poor. But there are also attached to the host plants (epiphytes). The beauty of this plant can be seen from the pocket which is a leaf-shaped end of the bag and serve to trap insects or other small animals.

Nepenthes plant propagation through stem cuttings, seeds and separate puppies. Generally Nepenthes living in low-lying terrestrial grows in watery places or near water sources in the acidic substrate. Nepenthes also need sunlight intensive with long daylight between 10-12 hours every day of the year, with temperatures between 23-31 ° C and relative humidity between 50-70%.