BJURNYEcosystem knowledge
These public plant profiles are associated with this ecosystem label. Distribution and growing context remain specific to each plant.
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Miniature African Aerangis from humid riverine and montane forests. Produces arching spikes with crystalline white flowers and a red-orange column, best grown mounted in intermediate to warm, very humid conditions.
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Small Madagascan Aerangis from lowland to montane forests. Grows in partial shade with intermediate temperatures and high humidity, producing elegant white spurred flowers in summer and autumn.
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Miniature, cool–intermediate Philippine species from high montane forests. Forms compact plants with relatively large white flowers and long spurs, blooming mainly in winter and spring under high humidity.
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Small Madagascan Angraecum from cool montane forests. Prefers bright light, cool to intermediate temperatures and very humid air, producing starry white flowers with a long spur from summer into winter.
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Miniature Madagascan Angraecum from cool to intermediate elevations. Grows in bright light with high humidity and good air movement, flowering in spring and summer with white, spurred blooms.
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Spider-like miniature Angraecum from cool, very shady montane forests of Madagascar. Thrives in low light with cool, constantly humid conditions and can flower throughout the year.
Didier's Angraecum
Fragrant miniature Angraecum from Madagascar, occurring from warm to cool submontane forests. Grows best in partial shade with high humidity and a slightly drier, cooler rest in winter, blooming in spring.
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Wide-ranging West and Central African miniature Angraecum from lowland to lower montane forests. Forms distichous leaf fans and produces small, often fragrant flowers in summer under warm, humid, partially shaded conditions.
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Compact Angraecum with thick, leathery leaves and large, starry ivory flowers. Native to humid forests of Madagascar and the Comoros from lowland to montane elevations, blooming mainly from winter into autumn in partial shade and high humidity.
Oblong Leaf Angraecum
Miniature, pendant Angraecum from humid montane forests of southeastern Madagascar. Grows cool in partial shade with high humidity and good air movement, producing oblong leaves and delicate starry flowers in autumn.
Scott’s Angraecum
Epiphytic Angraecum from moist montane forests of Madagascar and the Comoros, with stiff, distichous leaves and showy white, spurred flowers that open in the cooler, brighter months. Grows best in bright filtered light, cool to intermediate temperatures and very humid, well-ventilated air.
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Asplenium ruta-muraria is a small fern from temperate regions across Europe, East Asia and North America. It can be found on calcerous walls.
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High Andean cloud forest • Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia • ~1 400-3 450 m Along moss-draped branches or wet rock faces high in the Andes drifts a delicate orchid that defies its small size. Barbosella cucullata creeps in subtle mats, each growth crowned by a single, unusually hooded flower that rises well above the leaves. Its pale yellow-green to brownish bloom appears like a fleeting gem in the mist. Mount it on cork or bark with live moss, keep the air cool and humid, light filtered and indirect, water regularly so it never fully dries out, and ensure good air circulation. In return you’ll invite into your display a whisper-small expression of Andean forest life: a tiny, resilient marvel perched where fog meets tree.
Hidden Bulbophyllum
Widely distributed epiphytic Bulbophyllum from humid forests of South and Southeast Asia into the western Pacific. Plants form creeping chains of pseudobulbs that carry a single leaf, producing small, often hidden flowers close to the rhizome. Intermediate temperatures, medium light and consistently moist, humid conditions suit it best.
Frost’s Bulbophyllum
Striking miniature species from montane forests of Vietnam, famous for its pendant, slipper-like red-brown flowers with spotted segments. It prefers intermediate to warm temperatures, bright but indirect light, very high humidity and evenly moist roots.
Japri’s Bulbophyllum
Recently described micro-miniature from Papua (Indonesia), forming tight mats of tiny pseudobulbs and producing dark red flowers that hover above the foliage. Grows in humid, mossy forest with bright filtered light, intermediate temperatures and constant moisture with good air circulation.
Leopard-spotted Bulbophyllum
Miniature Philippine species with tightly packed pseudobulbs and showy yellow flowers heavily spotted in brown, resembling leopard markings. A cool to intermediate epiphyte from moist montane forest; it thrives in medium light, high humidity and evenly moist conditions.
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Bulbophyllum plumatum is a small epiphytic orchid and has 2-3 cm spacing between each obliquely ovoid pseudobulb. Each quadrangular pseudobulb, with concave sides, carries a single apical lanceolate leaf that narrows at the petiolate base. It flowers in a 10 cm long ascending, thin, cylindrical inflorescence, with a thicker apex bearing 4 umbelliform flowers at leaf height. It is found in Malaysia, Sumatra and the Philippines in swamp forests at elevations around 1,000 to 1,500 meters. Source: wikipedia.org
Sheathed Bulbophyllum
Cool to intermediate miniature from the eastern Himalayas and Indochina, growing on mossy branches between 1000 to 2000 m. It carries short, sheathed pseudobulbs and produces umbels of pink to orange flowers on slender stems. Best in partial shade, high humidity and evenly moist but airy media.
Centroglossa macroceras
Tiny Brazilian epiphyte from cool to intermediate Atlantic cloud forests, forming small fans of leaves and producing disproportionately large, spurred yellow flowers. Best mounted in low to moderate light with high humidity and frequent watering, but good drainage.
Ceratochilus biglandulosus
Leafy miniature, now often treated as Trichoglottis biglandulosa, native to cool to intermediate montane forests of Java around 1000 to 2000 m. A very small plant that produces a single, disproportionately large crystalline white flower, appreciating bright diffused light, high humidity and cool to intermediate temps.
Asian Ghost Orchid
Cool-growing leafless Chiloschista from montane forests of the western and eastern Himalayas and northern Thailand, typically at 1600 to 1700 m. Plants form pendent curtains of roots that carry many pale green flowers with white lips and a sweet fragrance. Needs bright filtered light, very high humidity and cool to intermediate temperatures.
Carinate Coelogyne
Compact Coelogyne from Sulawesi, New Guinea and neighbouring islands, found on mossy trees and rocks in wet tropical forest from near sea level up into the montane zone. Pseudobulbs carry paired leaves and produce arching spikes with green to brown flowers, usually in the cooler months. In culture it thrives in intermediate temperatures, medium light, high humidity and evenly moist but very airy media.
Swan’s Coelogyne
Medium-sized epiphyte from humid forests of Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra, where it grows from sea level to around 1700 m. Pseudobulbs bear long arching leaves and produce pendulous spikes carrying many cream flowers with a yellow-brown patterned lip, usually in autumn to winter. Grow intermediate, in medium to fairly bright light, with very high humidity and constantly moist but free-draining substrate.
