Heliamphora nutans is native to the Tepuis of South America and was the first species of Heliamphora to be discovered in 1838. It prefers cool daytime temperatures and a well-draining growing media that is low in nutrients. The carnivorous pitchers produce downward pointing hairs that force prey farther into the traps. See size descriptions below.
Description
Size and packing method: Medium plants have 1-2 mature pitchers about 3 inches tall and large plants have 1-2 mature pitchers about 4-5 inches tall. Plants ship potted in sphagnum moss. If selecting a bare root plant plus soil mix, you will receive two cups of our prepackaged Carnivorous Plant Soil Mix in addition to the bare root plant. This quantity of soil is roughly enough to fill one 2.5 x 2.5 x 3.5 inch square pot.
Growing requirements
Light: Full sun
Growing media: Long-fiber sphagnum moss or peat, perlite and sand
Feeding: Feed bugs, dried bloodworms, or fish food every 2-3 weeks, fertilizer such as Osmocote may be added to pitchers sparingly
Humidity: 50-90%
Water: Keep wet at all times, provide water that is low in salts and minerals such as rain or distilled water
Temperature: 65-80°F during the day, 10°F drop at night preferred but not necessary
Dormancy: None
Planting and adjustment instructions will be included with your shipment.
Colleen CoyleLevy (verified owner) –
Gorgeous healthy plant. Exceeded my expectations. Thank you!
Do Cao Vy Pham (verified owner) –
Kathleen Marie Tyrel (verified owner) –
Just turned on a backlight near a mature pitcher and the insides are biofluorescent! The nutans species glows with a beautiful seafoam green color. Absolutely gorgeous. i cant wait to buy another species from you guys and see what color the blacklight makes them glow.
Kathleen Tyrel (verified owner) –
This is an update to my review from June 17th 2020.
IT HAS PRODUCED ITS FIRST MATURE PITCHER!!! I’m so excited, the color has deepened to a beautiful orange-red from the gentle green it arrived with and the coloring almost looks like a blood orange. It was very slow growing and now has 6 cheep LED 12 hour grow lights on all the time. The hairs are so fine it looks like velvet. Absolutely gorgeous. 10/10
curiousplant (store manager) –
Woohoo!!! It sounds beautiful, thank you so much for the update Kathleen!!
Thanh Liem Ha (verified owner) –
Perfect as always. Came healthy and is doing well.
Nolan Hayes (verified owner) –
Just like pictured and we’ll packaged every time. I’ve ordered from curious plant often and their packages even though they’re coming further than others always get to me quickly and easily. They’ve got this down.
Kiana (verified owner) –
I love my new heliamphora. It came quickly and with no damage during shipping. Looks healthy!
Kathleen Tyrel (verified owner) –
I received a very healthy heliamphora that looks exactly like the one in the picture and plenty of soil. The plant was wrapped in a wet paper towel that still felt like it had just been soaked 5 minutes before. That was in a zip lock bag which was then packed in a little box with newspaper for cushioning. The plant looks very happy and not even a bruise to be seen. I’m definitely going to be buying again and I can’t wait to visit the greenhouse when we move to Ohio.
GRAHAM (verified owner) –
Travis Epply (verified owner) –
This is the first plant I’ve purchased from curious plants, I usualy get from eBay, or someone from a Facebook group, well let me say, I’m am very pleased. It was packaged very good, looks exactly like the one in the photo, looks healthy, robust and happy, I’m happy, I potted it and it’s in a happy place, it was very worth the price, and I’ll be buying from here again, maybe even buying only from here.