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Bulbophyllum fletcherianum
About
Bulbophyllum fletcherianum, the tongue orchid, Fletcher's bulbophyllum or Spies' bulbophyllum, is a rare orchid native to southern New Guinea. It prefers sunny rock outcrops or mossy tree branches, but besides being lithophytic or epiphytic, it can also be pseudo-terrestrial. The tongue orchid requires high humidity and moist roots.
- Family
- Orchidaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Bulbophyllum fletcherianum
- Slug
- bulbophyllum-fletcherianum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Bulbophyllum
- Species
- fletcherianum
- Wikidata QID
- Q977406
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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