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Arachnis cathcartii, the red spider orchid, is a climbing epiphytic orchid from the Himalayas and northern Myanmar with spidery red and white flowers. It needs warm, humid conditions and bright light to flower well.
Arachnis cathcartii, the red spider orchid, is an orchid native to the central and eastern Himalayas east to the mountains of northern Myanmar, where it occurs in wet tropical habitats at altitudes of 600–2000 metres. It has an unusual flower pattern, with numerous very narrow red and white horizontal bars on the five regular tepals; the sixth tepal is yellow with 2–4 longitudinal red lines.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arachnis cathcartii 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.
