Tropical Plants

This sundew has long, thin leaves that fork into a T, though young leaves look like a Y to us. As the plant matures and develops leaves up to 8 inches long, the forked leaves tend to flop down, forming a T. This plant grows well in a very sunny...

Named for its natural habitat in Cape Town, South Africa, this plant grows vigorously. As a mountainous species, this plant likes a very sunny window with mild temperatures. It may slow significantly during the hottest parts of summer, but watch it take...

This is a manmade hybrid of two sundews from two different continents - Drosera capensis from South Africa and D. spatulata from Australia. Depending on your perspective, it could be a rosetted version of D. capensis, or an elongated form of D. spatulata...

One word describes this plant - spectacular! It has long, slender, red leaves that branch out multiple times, as many as 36+ points on each leaf! A fully adult plant will have leaves that are 12-16 inches long, which is why some growers keep their plants...

This species is a demure plant. When fully grown, it is just under 2 inches in diameter, but it can reproduce itself by sending out shoots, producing a mound of multiple plants with spoon-shaped leaves. Give it ample sunlight in a sunny windowsill. With...

This species is known for its white band beneath the peristome. The plant produces a long vine with slender leaves from which elongated slender pitchers appear. While pitchers are commonly green, this variant features dark mottling alongside the pitchers...

This hybrid was bred by the fine folks at Exotica Plants in Australia. Many of the seed-grown plants had green pitchers, but we kept this one for our collection of mother plants. This particular clone produces fuzzy, colorful pitchers. The peristome...

A full-size plant will sport 6-inch colorful pitchers with red-orange splotches against a yellow background. It grows very well as a houseplant and appreciates lots of bright filtered sunlight or partial sun. The full parentage of this plant is Nepenthes...

Lady Luck is known for its short red pitchers. The hybrid is N. ampullaria x ventricosa and was originally produced by the fine folks at Borneo Exotics. This hybrid has been in cultivation for many years and also goes by the names Singapore Garden Tech...

If you're familiar with N. Peter D'Amato, you'll appreciate this plant. It's a similar cross, but in reverse. Pitchers are maroon with a striped peristome. Lower pitchers are darkly colored and stout. Upper pitchers are lightly colored and funnel-shaped...

It grows more slowly than other Mexican butterworts, but once it reaches flowering maturity, it quickly develops many leaves and multiple side shoots. But when it reaches flowering maturity, it takes off, producing lots of leaves and multiple side shoots...

Alfred Lau was a botanist who studied and discovered many Mexican butterworts in the wild. This particular plant was one he found in the wild and remains unidentified. It might be a form of Pinguicula gigantea or a natural hybrid with it. It has large,...