Bulbophyllum radicans
A miniature Bulbophyllum from the rainforests of tropical north Queensland. It forms hanging stems 10–40 cm long, with one thin leaf on each tiny pseudobulb. Its flowers are 3–4 mm long, pink, cream or yellow with red or purplish stripes, and appear on and off all year. It grows on trees and rocks from the lowlands to about 1,300 m and does well in intermediate, humid, airy conditions on a mount.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte or lithophyte in rainforest and at rainforest margins, on tree trunks, branches and rocks. The hanging, rooting stems form mats on moist bark and boulders, often in humid gullies and along the edges of streams and forest.
Wild records run from near sea level to about 1,300 m, with a median of about 750 m. Most plants therefore come from foothill and tableland rainforest rather than the hot coast.
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