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Aspasia principissa

Aspasia principissa
Photo: Stanvet04, CC BY-SA 3.0

Aspasia principissa is a pseudobulbous epiphytic orchid from wet tropical forests of Central America, Colombia and Brazil, grown for its small, wavy white to pale yellow flowers with pink or lavender streaks. It needs warm, humid, bright conditions with good air movement and a mounted or airy growing medium.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Water thoroughly when the medium is nearly dry, and reduce watering in winter, but never let the pseudobulbs shrivel.
Soil
Epiphytic orchid mix of bark chips, perlite or sphagnum, or mount on cork or a basket.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 15 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
C. America to Colombia, Brazil (Pará)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Aspasia principissa is an orchid in the genus Aspasia ranging from Central America to Colombia and Brazil.

Other Aspasia plants

Aspasia lunata · Aspasia silvana · Aspasia variegata · Vascular Plants

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aspasia principissa 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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