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Drymonia urceolata

An Andean gesneriad of the wet eastern slopes of Ecuador, Peru and southern Colombia, mostly recorded around 1,000–2,000 m. Grow it like other montane Drymonia: warm days, mild nights, constant humidity and bright shade, in a fast-draining epiphytic mix.

Drymonia urceolata
Photo: yakovlev.alexey from Moscow, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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

Wet premontane and montane forest on the Amazonian flank of the Andes. Like most Drymonia it probably grows as an epiphyte or scrambling climber on trunks and mossy banks; species-specific habitat notes are scarce.

Recorded at 450–3,032 m, median 1,500 m across about 500 dated records; most of the range is premontane to lower montane forest.

ColombiaEcuadorPeru

🔒 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 2.0 licence, unmodified.