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Phalaenopsis fimbriata

A small, warm-growing moth orchid from the lowland rainforests of Sumatra, Java and Borneo, with thin leaves and waxy white to greenish-yellow flowers whose lip tip carries a tuft of hairs. It is a shade-loving epiphyte of moist primary forest, so it wants warm, humid, gently lit conditions all year rather than any rest.

Phalaenopsis fimbriata
Photo: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Warm-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

An epiphyte in moist primary lowland forest. Herbarium labels include a record from fallen trees in Ujung Kulon, western Java, which fits a plant of shaded trunks and branches in the lower and middle forest layers.

Reported at about 400 m; one old Kinabalu (Sabah) specimen is labelled 914 m, so roughly lowland to 900 m.

SumatraJavaBorneo

🔒 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.