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Bulbophyllum laxiflorum

A widespread Southeast Asian Bulbophyllum ranging from Myanmar and Indochina through Peninsular Thailand and Malaysia to Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi and the Philippines. Herbarium labels show it in lowland and hill forest, including disturbed and regenerating forest and open woodland, so it is a fairly adaptable warm-to-intermediate epiphyte.

Bulbophyllum laxiflorum
Photo: Raabbustamante, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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 Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

Specimen labels describe regeneration forest in Bach Ma (Vietnam), open woodland of thin pole-sized trees on steep ultrabasic slopes in Sulawesi, cleared forest on the Crocker Range watershed in Sabah, and valley forest at Ketambe in Sumatra. These suggest it grows on branches in fairly open, bright forest rather than deep shade.

Few specimens carry elevations. The localities span lowland sites (Ao Luk in Peninsular Thailand, Ketambe at about 350 m) to hill and lower montane forest (Gunung Halimun in Java, Mt Nokilalaki in Sulawesi, the Crocker Range), roughly sea level to about 1500 m.

MyanmarThailandLaosCambodiaVietnamPeninsular MalaysiaSumatraJavaBorneoSulawesiPhilippinesLesser Sunda Islands

🔒 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-SA 4.0 licence, unmodified.