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Angraecum bancoense is an epiphytic orchid from the wet tropical forests of West and Central Africa, grown by enthusiasts as a specialist (not common) plant. It needs warm, humid, bright conditions and a loose epiphytic mount or basket to thrive.
Angraecum bancoense is a species of comet orchid that can be found in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Principe and Sierra Leone. It can be found with Calamus, on Lophira alata, Macrolebium or Blighia welwitschii.
Angraecum aporoides · Angraecum birrimense · Angraecum borbonicum · Angraecum cadetii · Angraecum calceolus · Angraecum caulescens · Small Spider Angraecum · Angraecum crassum · Angraecum cucullatum · Angraecum didieri · Angraecum distichum · Angraecum eburneum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Angraecum bancoense 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.
