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Angraecum podochiloides

Angraecum podochiloides
Photo: yakovlev.alexey from Moscow, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0

Angraecum podochiloides is a small epiphytic orchid from wet tropical West and Central Africa, growing on trees in humid lowland and montane forests. It needs warm, humid, shaded conditions and a loose, airy growing medium.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Epiphyte, Orchid
Light
Bright indirect, Part shade
Water
Water when the mix is nearly dry, keeping it evenly moist but never soggy, and let roots dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Loose epiphyte mix of bark, sphagnum or charcoal, or mount on cork or wood.
Temperature
18–29 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
W. & WC. Trop. Africa
Climate
wet tropical

About

Angraecum podochiloides is a species of comet orchid that can be found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria. It can be found in dense lowland forests on Gilbertiodendron dewevrei, and in humid forests at higher elevations or low montane forests. It is an epiphyte on Dialium corbisieri or in periodically flooded marshes with Guibourtia.

Other Angraecum plants

Angraecum aporoides · Angraecum bancoense · Angraecum birrimense · Angraecum borbonicum · Angraecum cadetii · Angraecum calceolus · Angraecum caulescens · Small Spider Angraecum · Angraecum crassum · Angraecum cucullatum · Angraecum didieri · Angraecum distichum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Angraecum podochiloides 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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