The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Porpax jerdoniana
Jerdon's Porpax is a small pseudobulbous epiphytic orchid from southern India and the North Andaman Islands, growing on trees in wet tropical forest. It is rarely cultivated, so grow it like other warm, humid epiphytic orchids: bright shade, open mix, and steady moisture.
Porpax jerdoniana is a species of orchid in the genus Porpax.
Porpax exilis · Porpax reticulata · Porpax verrucosa · Porpax
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Porpax jerdoniana 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.
