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Anthurium ochranthum

An Anthurium of wet lowland forest from Honduras to Colombia, most often seen on the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica and western Panama. There are no located records in our dataset and little published about its ecology, so these are warm, humid rainforest conditions generalised from its known localities and from related Central American Anthurium.

Anthurium ochranthum
Photo: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry
Light ShadeDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

Grows in humid lowland rainforest. The sources we could open do not say whether it is mainly epiphytic or terrestrial; it is treated here as a low trunk epiphyte of the shaded understorey, a habit that also suits plants rooted at the base of trees.

Recent wild observations come from lowland localities such as La Rita and Golfito in Costa Rica and Changuinola in Panama, mostly below about 800 m. No record gives an elevation.

HondurasNicaraguaCosta RicaPanamaColombia

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY 2.0 licence, unmodified.