Masdevallia aenigma

Masdevallia aenigma Luer & R.Escobar is a Colombian high-cloud-forest species recorded at 2500 to 2600 m in Cundinamarca and Boyaca. It is a genuinely cold grower: days below 22 C and nights around 10 C with humid moving air are what it expects.

At home, aim for

Day Cool-growingTargets 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

A small tufted epiphyte or lithophyte of cold, wet upper montane cloud forest on the Eastern Cordillera, growing in thick moss in filtered light.

Twenty records with elevation cluster tightly at 2500 to 2583 m; one outlying record near Quindio at 1743 m carries little weight.

ColombiaCundinamarcaBoyaca

🔒 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.