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Porpax verrucosa

Porpax verrucosa is a small epiphytic orchid from the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia, rarely cultivated and little documented in horticulture. Grow it like other tropical pseudobulbous epiphytes, with humid conditions and mounted or well-draining growing media.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Epiphyte
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Water when the growing medium begins to dry, and keep it slightly drier in winter.
Soil
Well-draining orchid mix or mounting on bark or tree fern.
Temperature
18-28 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Cambodia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Porpax verrucosa is a species of epiphytic orchids native to the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia.

Other Porpax plants

Porpax exilis · Jerdon's Porpax · Porpax reticulata · Porpax

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Porpax verrucosa 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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