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White cinnamon orchid

Corymborkis veratrifolia

White cinnamon orchid
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

A terrestrial orchid from tropical Asia and the Pacific that grows in shady forest and rainforest floors, with wiry stems and cinnamon-scented white flowers. It is a demanding species that needs shade, humidity and steady moisture.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Shade, Part shade
Water
Keep the medium consistently moist but never waterlogged, and water more in the growing season.
Soil
Free-draining, humus-rich mix such as bark, leaf mould and sphagnum.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to Pacific
Climate
wet tropical

About

Corymborkis veratrifolia, commonly known as the white cinnamon orchid is a plant in the orchid family and is native to areas from tropical and subtropical Asia to Australia and the Pacific Islands. It is an evergreen, terrestrial orchid with a thin, upright stem, papery, pleated leaves and a short flowering stems with up to sixty crowded, short-lived green and white flowers.

Where it grows

Corymborkis veratrifolia grows in shady places in forest and rainforest in China, Taiwan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, the Ryukyu Islands, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, islands in the south west Pacific and northern Australia. In Australia it is found between the Iron Range and Airlie Beach in Queensland.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Corymborkis veratrifolia 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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