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- Orchids come from the rainforest - a journey through their tropical homeland
- Giant forest giants serve as a throne for the royal flowers
- Conclusions for care - How to simulate natural conditions
- Tips
Orchids are originally from the humid-warm tropics
Orchids come from the rainforest - a journey through their tropical homeland
Tropical rainforest is not just considered the green lung of the earth. The huge forest areas on either side of the equator give us fascinating orchids for the windowsill. In order to properly cultivate the queen of flowers as a houseplant, the conditions at natural site should be known. Follow us on a journey through the home of orchids.
Giant forest giants serve as a throne for the royal flowers
Tropical rainforest is characterized by a humid-warm climate with small fluctuations between the day and night temperatures. The typical floor construction of mighty trees, medium sized and small plants leads to eternal twilight on the ground. Over the course of their long evolution, orchids have developed this clever strategy to still receive enough sunlight for photosynthesis:
While rain falls daily in some regions of the tropics, in other regions there is a change between rainy and dry seasons. So that the local orchids do not have to dying during the dry season, they have bulbs as storage organs. Here, water and nutrients can be stored for bad times.
Conclusions for care - How to simulate natural conditions
Have you become familiar with the conditions that a tropical rainforest offers orchids? Then this central care measures result:
In order for the aerial roots to receive enough light, please place an orchid in a transparent culture pot. Choose a coarse orchid substrate of pine bark, sphagnum and lava granules.
Tips
Tropical rainforest is not the only habitat for orchids. Some survival artists of this multi-faceted plant family have chosen the forests in Germany as home. These include species such as orchids (Orchis) and forest hyacinths (Platanthera). You can even meet a lady's slipper orchid in the field and in the forest, as Cypripedium calceolus thrives hardy and perennial.