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Masdevallia calura

Masdevallia calura Rchb.f. is a Costa Rican cloud-forest miniature with small, tubular, deep red-purple flowers whose sepals are finely hairy, carried just above the leaves and often produced in succession. It grows at mostly 1300 to 2000 m on the Cordillera de Tilarán and Cordillera Central, and is an easy intermediate-to-cool grower once humidity is right.

Masdevallia calura
Photo: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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

An epiphyte of very wet premontane and lower montane cloud forest, in moss on trunks and lower branches in filtered light, on both the Caribbean-facing slopes and the Monteverde ridges.

Wild records run 100 to 2000 m with a median of 1700 m; the climate is weighted to sites at 1575 to 2000 m, and the single lowland Osa record is probably a stray.

Costa Rica

🔒 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.