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Aroids Partly documented

Rhaphidophora hookeri

A robust climbing aroid from the eastern Himalaya through Yunnan to Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, found in evergreen forest often near streams and waterfalls. It lives with a pronounced dry, cool winter and hot early summer.

Rhaphidophora hookeri
Photo: Adolf Engler (1844-1930), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
Expects a seasonal restClimber

Where it grows wild

Collected in subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest dominated by Lithocarpus in the Gaoligong Shan and Dulong Jiang valley, along a small stream in a shaded valley on Doi Tung in Thailand, and near Kuang Si waterfall in Laos. It root-climbs trees.

Recorded from about 200 to 2220 m, median 1250 m.

ChinaIndiaBhutanNepalBangladeshMyanmarThailandLaosVietnam

🔒 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 Public domain licence, unmodified.