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Coelogyne lawrenceana

A large-flowered Coelogyne from the Indochinese highlands, with pale green-brown sepals and a white lip marked with brown and orange keels. It is an intermediate-growing epiphyte that expects warm wet summers and a cooler, drier winter.

Coelogyne lawrenceana
Photo: Dalton Holland Baptista, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
Expects a seasonal restGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

An epiphyte in evergreen hill and montane forest, often on large trees, in the highlands of southern and central Vietnam, Laos and northern Thailand.

No recorded elevations; site elevations range from about 370 to 1930 m, with most of the Vietnamese records around 800–1900 m on the Da Lat plateau.

VietnamLaosThailand

🔒 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.