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Klotsch's Phragmipedium

Phragmipedium klotzschianum

Klotsch's Phragmipedium
Photo: Roberto Takase, CC BY-SA 3.0

Klotsch's Phragmipedium is a terrestrial, wet-tropical lady's slipper orchid from the Guiana Shield region, grown mainly by specialists rather than as a common houseplant. Its key to success is steady moisture and humidity without waterlogged roots.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep the medium evenly moist year-round and never let it dry out completely; use rainwater or low-mineral water.
Soil
Coarse, open orchid mix or sphagnum with perlite and bark, kept loose and well drained.
Temperature
18–29 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
SE. Venezuela to Guyana and Brazil (Roraima)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Phragmipedium klotzschianum is a species of orchid found from southeastern Venezuela to Guyana and northern Brazil.

Other Phragmipedium plants

Besse's Phragmipedium · Boissier's Phragmipedium · Reed grass-like Phragmipedium · Mandarin orchid · Phragmipedium chapadense · Fischer's Phragmipedium · Hirtz' Phragmipedium · Kovach's Phragmipedium · Phragmipedium lindenii · Lindley's Phragmipedium · Long-Leaf Phragmipedium · Pearce's Phragmipedium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phragmipedium klotzschianum 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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