Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

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.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Vanda ampullacea

Vanda ampullacea
Photo: Badlydrawnboy22, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Epiphyte, Perennial, Orchid
Native range
Himalaya to China (S. Yunnan) and Indo-China
Climate
subtropical

About

Vanda ampullacea is a perennial epiphytic orchid found in southeast Asia from Nepal to China (southern Yunnan) and India, including the eastern Himalayas. It has had various classifications, initially called Aerides ampullacea by William Roxburgh when it was first described in 1814. It was most recently reclassified in 2012 during a taxonomic revision of Vanda. In 1868, one if its cultivars received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society.

Other Vanda plants

Vanda miniata · Vanda bensonii · Vanda christensoniana · Blue orchid · Vanda coerulescens · Vanda cristata · Vanda curvifolia · Vanda denisoniana · Vanda dives · Vanda falcata subsp. richardsiana · Samurai Orchid · Vanda flabellata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vanda ampullacea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…