
Pleurothallis niveoglobula
The Spherical-White Pleurothallis
Found in Ecuador as a miniature, warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations 500 to 1650 meters in cloud forests with erect, slender, laterally compressed above the middle, subtended by 2 to 3 sheaths and another above the base carrying a coriaceous, somewhat spreading, ovate, acute leaf with a rounded, shallowly cordate, sessile base that blooms on a 1/2" [1.25 cm] long, fascile of solitary, successive flowers arising from aa reclining spathe with glabrous, snow white flowers. (orchidspecies.com)
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Partial shade
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Frequent watering
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Not Frost hardy
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Free draining
Common name
The Spherical-White Pleurothallis
Latin name
Pleurothallis niveoglobula
type
Flowering plant
family
Orchidaceae
ph
5.0 - 7.0 Acid - Neutral
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
full grown dimensions
Pleurothallis niveoglobula
Found in Ecuador as a miniature, warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations 500 to 1650 meters in cloud forests with erect, slender, laterally compressed above the middle, subtended by 2 to 3 sheaths and another above the base carrying a coriaceous, somewhat spreading, ovate, acute leaf with a rounded, shallowly cordate, sessile base that blooms on a 1/2" [1.25 cm] long, fascile of solitary, successive flowers arising from aa reclining spathe with glabrous, snow white flowers. (orchidspecies.com)