Old World Botanicals

A small family run nursery in Tasmania, Australia. Join us on our journey to find ethical sources of all the carnivorous plants we know and love. 

Bring a little jungle into your life.

Journey into the incredible world of Nepenthes

Learn a little about Nepenthes distribution, morphology, evolution, and habitat so we can try and better grow them at home.

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We stock a range of Nepenthes. Our passion is species and natural hybrids but we make sure to stock a variety of horticultural hybrids for beginners and collectors alike.

About Us

We fell in love with Nepenthes before moving to Tasmania. A basic desire to bring some plants down for ourselves grew into a desire to bring a proper range of this amazing genus to all of Tasmania. Along the way we’ve ended up supplying all of the other non-quarantine states.

We are blown away by the support shown to us by our customers and friends in the hobby. We’ve met so many incredibly lovely people, and we’re excited to keep growing to meet our dream - to have a steady supply of Nepenthes species and natural hybrids at affordable prices.

Please take your time to look around the website. We’re hoping to learn a lot and share that knowledge along the way.

About Our Suppliers

We are proud to have developed business partnerships with some incredible Tissue Culture laboratories. Tissue Culture is capable of producing unlimited clones from a single seed. This has the benefit of turning a small numbers of seeds into a worldwide supply, and for the best clones to slowly be selected out for your convenience. This is best for you, and the best tool we have to combat poaching.

Captive Exotics

Newneps

Borneo Exotics

The photos of Nepenthes villosa and Nepenthes muluensis used on this page were taken by Greg Bourke

  • I have purchased plants on numerous occasions and have been thoroughly impressed with the quality of the plants and the care taken with packaging them for delivery. Definitely will be a repeat customer

    L. James

  • Absolutely love my neps! Wow they arrived so fast and in perfect condition. I was a skeptical first buyer and these guys made my day upon unwrapping the box to see such healthy plants that are now happy and thriving. I'll be back and that's for sure.

    E. Pollington

  • Perfect! Great selection of plants, healthy plants and very generous.

    L. Austin

  • Great service as always, plants always arrive in top condition, postage time is quick

    R. Brakel

So impressed by the new Old World Botanicals logo we had commissioned by @ryan_rivers_art. We really wanted to support a local artist and Ryan has such an amazing detail and style that it was a no brainer. Nepenthes villosa had to feature (of course
Nepenthes hamata (CE-317) from Captive Exotics. Can see the pitcher jumps on this one. Combination of hitting that critical mass, springtime temps, and feeding the pitchers with nutricote. N. hamata had been an unlucky plant for me in the past so i
Loving this N. maxima (BE-3907). I'm curious how much maxima will be split out over the 10 years but it will undeniably remain a highly variable species even then. I'll always keep an eye out for new maxima clones and we have a few on the website I
Website is live. Cute little N. burb x camp (BE-3564) for tax. oldworldbotanicals.com.au
Photos are done, website is ready enough, I'll get the website open at ~6pm tomorrow Tasmanian time! We will ship the next two Mondays, and then any new orders will be shipped after January break. Thanks for your love and support, everyone!
Nepenthes spectabilis (Gng. Perkinson - BE-3322) vs Nepenthes spectabilis x mira (BE-3181) from our early/late 2023 order respectively. The N. spectabilis x mira has been neglected on our top shelf or it would probably be 4x as big by now. It's a r