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Encyclia candollei

A Mexican epiphytic Encyclia with egg-shaped pseudobulbs and long sprays of brownish flowers with a pale lip, found mostly at mid elevations in the eastern Sierra Madre. It follows the classic Mexican rhythm: warm, wet summers and a cool, much drier winter, which it should get in cultivation too.

Encyclia candollei
Photo: Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892) del., Swan sc., Public domain, 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 Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
Expects a seasonal restGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

Epiphyte on oaks and other trees in seasonally dry to humid oak and pine-oak forest and in tropical deciduous woodland, mostly on the Gulf-facing slopes from Veracruz and Puebla to Hidalgo, Querétaro and San Luis Potosí.

Recorded from 13 to 2,050 m, median about 1,220 m; most records are from 900–1,500 m.

Mexico Gulf (Veracruz)Mexico Northeast (San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas)Mexico Central (Hidalgo, Puebla, Querétaro)Mexico Southwest (Oaxaca, Guerrero)

🔒 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 Public domain licence, unmodified.