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Jumellea exilis

Jumellea exilis
Photo: Naoki Takebayashi from Fairbanks, AK, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0

Jumellea exilis is a small epiphytic or lithophytic orchid native to Réunion, growing on trees or rocks in wet tropical forest. It needs humid, shaded conditions with good drainage and is rarely grown outside specialist collections.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Epiphyte
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the roots evenly moist during growth and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining epiphyte mix of bark or sphagnum with perlite, or a mount on bark or wood.
Temperature
15–26 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion
Climate
wet tropical

About

Jumellea exilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae, endemic to the island of Réunion.

Other Jumellea plants

Jumellea arachnantha · Jumellea comorensis · Jumellea fragrans · Jumellea recta · Jumellea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Jumellea exilis 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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