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Masdevallia Nidifica in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Masdevallia Nidifica

 

Masdevallia Nidifica

Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphytic species that is from windy lower montane cloud forests on slender branches at elevations of 450 to 2500 meters with short ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close, tubular bracts and carrying a single, apical, elliptic-lanceolate leaf and has a solitary flowered, arcuate, 5/8" to 2" [1.5 to 5 cm] long, inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul occuring in the winter and summer with the flower held at or above leaf level.

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plant Features
  • Masdevallia Nidifica likes partial shade

    Partial shade

  • Masdevallia Nidifica likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

  • Masdevallia Nidifica is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Masdevallia Nidifica likes moist and free draining

    Moist and free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Masdevallia Nidifica

Latin name

Masdevallia Nidifica

type

Tender perennial

family

Orchidaceae

ph

7.0 - 8.0 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Masdevallia Nidifica likes partial shade

    Partial shade

  • Frost

    Masdevallia Nidifica is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Soil

    Masdevallia Nidifica likes moist and free draining

    Moist and free draining

  • Water

    Masdevallia Nidifica likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

Plant & bloom calendar

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    Best time to plant

full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Masdevallia Nidifica is 0.20meters x 0.20meters 0.20 M 0.20 M

Masdevallia Nidifica

Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphytic species that is from windy lower montane cloud forests on slender branches at elevations of 450 to 2500 meters with short ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close, tubular bracts and carrying a single, apical, elliptic-lanceolate leaf and has a solitary flowered, arcuate, 5/8" to 2" [1.5 to 5 cm] long, inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul occuring in the winter and summer with the flower held at or above leaf level.


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