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Maxillaria embreei

A cool cloud-forest Maxillaria from the Andes of Colombia and northern Ecuador, well recorded at around 2,000–3,000 m. It needs constantly cool, wet, humid conditions with no dry season, much like Masdevallia or high-elevation Odontoglossum.

Maxillaria embreei
Photo: Dario Taraborelli, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Cool-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Very humid airBand in Plantistry
Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

Grows in wet montane and upper cloud forest of the western and central Colombian cordilleras and eastern Ecuador; by the genus and habitat it is an epiphyte among moss on trunks and branches.

Recorded from 748 to 3,310 m, median about 2,640 m; the low outliers are probably georeferencing errors.

ColombiaEcuador

🔒 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 CC0 licence, unmodified.