Selected out of many different clones for its large pitchers with uniform deep purple colouration as the photos and videos here clearly show. The female parent is the famed cultivar Nepenthes ‘Bill Bailey’ (= N. singalana x ventricosa), and the male parent is the giant black N. robcantleyi, with the cultivar name ‘King of Spades’. The correct Latin name for this cultivar is N. (singalana x ventricosa) x robcantleyi. Selected out of many different clones for its large pitchers with uniform deep purple colouration as the photos and videos here clearly show. The female parent is the famed cultivar Nepenthes ‘Bill Bailey’ (= N. singalana x ventricosa), and the male parent is the giant black N. robcantleyi, with the cultivar name ‘King of Spades’. The correct Latin name for this cultivar is N. (singalana x ventricosa) x robcantleyi.
History: First introduced to cultivation in Nov 2019.
Climate: 'Highland'. We grow it between about 26 deg. C (80 deg. F) in the daytime, down to 12 deg. C (54 deg. F) at night, although it will certainly tolerate temperatures well outside this range.
