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Columnea flexiflora

Columnea flexiflora is an endangered epiphytic gesneriad endemic to the sub-Andean ridges of south-east Ecuador: the Cordillera de Cutucú, the Cordillera del Cóndor and hills near Gualaquiza. It grows in montane and premontane wet forest at about 1,500–1,620 m. It was once treated as Trichantha dodsonii. Grow it like other cool-intermediate cloud-forest Columnea: humid, shaded, steady temperatures and never dry.

Columnea flexiflora
Photo: Eric Hunt, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry
Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

An epiphyte in montane tropical rainforest (Wikipedia) and premontane wet forest (herbarium label, Cordillera del Cóndor). These forests on isolated sub-Andean ridges are cloudy, humid and mossy.

1,500–2,000 m per Wikipedia (IUCN). GBIF specimens are at 1,500–1,620 m.

Ecuador

🔒 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 2.5 licence, unmodified.