Dracula velutina

A Colombian Dracula known from only a couple of wild records in the Andes of Antioquia near Medellín, described by Reichenbach and moved to Dracula by Luer in 1978. Nothing specific about its habitat is published in the sources checked, so the advice follows the measured climate of its cloud-forest site and what is known for the genus: cool, constantly humid, shaded and never dry.

At home, aim for

Day Cool-growingTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Very humid airBand in Plantistry

Light ShadeDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

Almost nothing is recorded for this species itself. Draculas are epiphytes of wet, mossy montane cloud forest, growing low on shaded trunks, and the single climate site near Medellín at about 2500 m fits that picture.

The one climate site sits at about 2500 m in the Central Cordillera; the records themselves carry no elevation.

Colombia (Antioquia)

🔒 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.