Masdevallia castor

Masdevallia castor Luer & Cloes is a Peruvian species known only from its description, with no wild occurrence records in GBIF and no cultivation notes in the literature we could reach. Treat it as a cool-to-intermediate cloud-forest grower until its locality is known.

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

No habitat detail is published for this name. Species described by Luer and Cloes from Peru mostly came from cloud forest in the northern and central departments. Peruvian Masdevallias are small tufted epiphytes of wet montane cloud forest on the eastern Andean slopes.

Unknown; the genus in Peru is mostly between about 1500 and 3000 m. The single climate site in the data sits at 273 m in the Huallaga lowlands and is unlikely to be the real habitat.

Peru

🔒 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.