Vanda stangeana

A compact Vanda described by Reichenbach in 1858 from northeast India, with tessellated greenish-yellow to brown flowers and a pale lip. It grows in monsoon hill forest with a cool, dry winter, so it wants warm, wet summers and a cooler, drier rest.

At home, aim for

Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry

Light Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

Expects a seasonal restGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

An epiphyte of monsoon hill forest in northeast India. Habitat details are inferred from the recorded sites and the genus.

The three records are from about 700–1,600 m in Sikkim, Arunachal and Manipur.

India

🔒 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.