Cattleya alaorii

Cattleya alaorii, formerly Laelia alaorii, is a miniature epiphytic cattleya endemic to the coastal Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia, Brazil. It suits a bright, humid, intermediate-to-warm setup with a mount that dries quickly.

At home, aim for

Day IntermediateTargets 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

An epiphyte in the upper branches of rainforest trees up to 40 m tall, in the Bahia coastal forests ecoregion. It gets a fair amount of light in a habitat described as always foggy. It was discovered in the 1970s in an isolated range of hills near Itabuna, and herbarium labels also mention the Santa Luzia and Una area of southern Bahia.

About 600 m in coastal-range rainforest.

Brazil Northeast

🔒 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 3.0 licence, unmodified.