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Pleione limprichtii is a small, hardy epiphytic or lithophytic orchid from western China and northern Myanmar, grown for its deep pink spring flowers. It is grown in a cool, shaded spot or as a cool houseplant, and it is hardy to several degrees of frost when sheltered.
Pleione limprichtii, the hardy Chinese orchid, is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae, endemic to China (central Sichuan), and also possibly grows in northern Burma. It is an epiphytic (growing from plants) or lithophytic (growing from rocks) orchid growing to 15 cm (6 in) tall by 30 cm (12 in) broad, with a pear-shaped pseudobulb that produces a single folded leaf. Deep pink flowers with rose red spotted lips are borne in spring.
It can take several degrees below freezing growing in a shaded, sheltered spot. Alternatively it may be grown as a houseplant, in a cool room indoors.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pleione limprichtii 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.
