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Andreettaea tsubotae

Andreettaea tsubotae
Photo: Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0

Andreettaea tsubotae is a small epiphytic orchid from humid Andean forest in Colombia, growing on trees rather than in soil. Treat it like other cool-to-intermediate Andean epiphytic orchids: bright shade, humid air and a well-draining mount or airy bark mix.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Epiphyte, Orchid
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Water when the medium is nearly dry, and keep it lightly moist during active growth.
Soil
Airy epiphytic orchid mix such as fine bark, or mount on a slab or cork.
Temperature
15–24 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Colombia (Risaralda)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Andreettaea tsubotae is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family. It is an epiphyte known from Risaralda Department of Colombia, where it grows in humid Andean forest at 1400 meters elevation.

Other Muscarella plants

Forest Bonnet Orchid · Andreettaea cabellensis · Andreettaea catoxys · Andreettaea cestrochila · Andreettaea claviculata · Andreettaea perangusta · Andreettaea quinqueseta · Andreettaea samacensis · Andreettaea segregatifolia · Andreettaea zephyrina · Andreettaea furcatipetala

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Andreettaea tsubotae by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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