Cephalotus Follicularis is a carnivorous plant found only in the wild of remote southern Australia. It grows beautiful pitchers to trap its prey, just like Nepenthes and Sarracenia.
A baby Cephalotus just potted up
Growing Cephalotus is not a good experience for many growers. Its steep learning curve to grow a Cephalotus is just painstaking. Some growing methods may work for others but not for you. You need to find your own growing method in most of the cases. If the growing conditions are not suitable for this particular plant, it will just die, not giving any second chance for you to readapt.
Small Cephalotus compared to the big Sphagnum!
Although growing Cephalotus is hard, but once it is adapted to your growing conditions, they will reward you with many colourful pitchers! Established plants have red colouration on its pitchers and their dentate peristome turn red too! The entire plant just look stunning!
Drying up within a week!
I personally give a shot in Cephalotus and it died on me within 1 week since I received them. It was the media that was not suitable due to the acidity of the media (sand + peat). At first, I thought that the sudden drop in humidity caused it to lose quite a number of pitchers and I started misting it and planting live mosses around it to increase the humidity. I will definitely give another shot at Cephalotus again soon!
