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Chamaeanthus longicheila

Chamaeanthus longicheila
Photo: Nuraliev M. S., Seregin A. P. (Ed.), CC BY 4.0

Chamaeanthus longicheila is a small epiphytic orchid native and endemic to Vietnam, growing on trees in humid tropical forest. It needs warm, humid, bright conditions with an airy growing medium and careful watering.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Epiphyte
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Water when the medium starts to dry, and keep the roots lightly moist without letting them stay soggy.
Soil
Mount on bark or in a very airy orchid mix, or grow on a slab of cork or tree fern.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Vietnam
Climate
wet tropical

About

Chamaeanthus longicheila, syn. Biermannia longicheila, is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae. It is an epiphytic subshrub native and endemic to Vietnam.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chamaeanthus longicheila 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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