Bulbophyllum vaginatum
A creeping lowland Bulbophyllum of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, with widely spaced pseudobulbs, thick leaves and a wheel of pale cream-yellow flowers whose lateral sepals end in long threads. It uses CAM photosynthesis and grows on trees in fairly open places, from wayside and village trees to kerangas heath forest on white sand. Grow it hot, bright and humid, mounted so the long rhizome can wander.
Where it grows wild
A creeping epiphyte of the lowlands, on trunks and branches in open secondary forest, kerangas and padang heath on white sand, village trees and roadside trees. In southern Thailand it also grows on exposed granite boulders near rivers in evergreen forest. It is a CAM plant, adapted to drying out between rains.
Mostly from near sea level to about 200 m; one record from the Genting Highlands at about 1070 m.
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