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Maxillaria arachnites

A spidery-flowered epiphytic Maxillaria found from Trinidad and Venezuela down the Andes to Bolivia. Records come from wet forest between roughly 300 and 1,600 m, so grow it intermediate, humid and evenly moist all year.

Maxillaria arachnites
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 humid lowland to montane forest, based on the genus and the recorded sites in the Colombian Andes and Trinidad's Northern Range.

Sites span roughly 300–1,600 m; a Bolivian point at about 4,370 m is a country-level centroid and not a real locality.

BoliviaColombiaTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela

🔒 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.