Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Angraecum ramosum

Angraecum ramosum
Photo: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0

Angraecum ramosum is a small epiphytic orchid from the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius and Réunion) that grows as a compact, branching stem. It is a specialist orchid best grown mounted or in very airy, fast-draining media with warm, humid conditions.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Water when the medium is nearly dry, reducing slightly in cooler months, and keep the roots from sitting wet.
Soil
Open epiphytic mix of bark or sphagnum on a mount, or very coarse, fast-draining bark mix.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Mascarenes, Madagascar
Climate
wet tropical

About

Angraecum ramosum is a small, caulescent species of orchid, native to Mauritius and Réunion.

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 ramosum 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…