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Myoxanthus octomerioides

Myoxanthus octomerioides is a small epiphytic orchid from southern Mexico that grows on trees in humid forest. It needs bright, humid conditions and an airy mount or basket with fast-draining media.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Epiphyte, Orchid
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Water when the medium is nearly dry, keeping roots lightly moist and never soggy.
Soil
Airy epiphyte mix of bark, sphagnum or tree-fern fibre, or a mounted position.
Temperature
15–28 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Mexico (Guerrero, Oaxaca, Veracruz)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Myoxanthus octomerioides is a species of orchid. It is an epiphyte native to the southern Mexican states of Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Veracruz.

Other Myoxanthus plants

Myoxanthus cereus · Myoxanthus congestus · Myoxanthus exasperatus · Myoxanthus fimbriatus · Myoxanthus lonchophyllus · Myoxanthus punctatus · Myoxanthus reymondii · Myoxanthus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Myoxanthus octomerioides 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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