Nepenthes burbidgeae 50% silica gel, 20% "Sphagnum" moss, 20% fir bark, and 10% peat moss chunks. The highest growth rates were exhibited by specimens in 50% leached perlite, 30% long fiber "Sphagnum" moss, 10% peat moss chunks, and 10% fir bark, as well as media without fir bark and with a higher percentage of "Sphagnum". "Nepenthes burbidgeae" was found to tolerate temperatures in the range of 9 to 41 °C (48° to 105 °F). A nighttime drop in temperature below 18 °C (65 °F) was necessary for good growth; plants that were not exposed to such a drop grew around 50% slower
Abbotts Moss Nature Reserve quaking bog occurs when plants such as "Sphagnum" mosses and cotton grass "Eriophorum" sp. colonise the surface of a waterbody and form a floating mat of vegetation. Locally uncommon plants growing here include common cottongrass "Eriophorum angustifolium", cranberry "Vaccinium oxycoccos", round-leaved sundew "Drosera rotundifolia", crowberry "Empetrum nigrum", hare’s-tail cottongrass "Eriophorum vaginatum", bog rosemary "Andromeda polifolia", white beak-sedge "Rhynchospora alba" and the carnivorous lesser bladderwort "Utricularia minor". Dragonflies include the nationally rare white-faced darter "Leucorrhinia dubia" and the locally uncommon downy emerald "Cordulia aenea" and black darter "Sympetrum danae". Abbotts Moss is one of only two sites in Cheshire where adders