This is a small to miniature warm to intermediate epiphyte, and occasional lithophyte, from Western Tropical Africa to Angola and Tanzania where it grows from 750 to 1 950 meters. A beautiful fan shaped species with flowers that look almost like sheer white glass and with a prominent spur. Each short inflorescence carry several (5-20) flowers nestled within the leaves. The flowers measure about 5 mm wide and last a really long time and is a very nice contrast to the green leaves, reminding me a little of Lilly of the Valley flowers in the spring and I like it a lot. It enjoys humid and semi-shaded growing conditions and want to dry out a bit between waterings. I grow mine mounted on cork in the intermediate vivarium, humid and medium bright.
Podangis dactyloceras (Rchb.f.) Schltr., Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 82 (1918).
wow…amazing!
Thank you! 🙂
So delicate and beautiful. Reminds me of the little organisms in pond water, or a jelly fish larvae.
Thanks Damien. I agree with you. 🙂
I just came across your website as I was looking for information on my relatively new Podangis. It appears to be in spike and I wanted to see what the flowers would look like.
I love your site (very informative!) and I am going to add it to my list of interesting websites on my blog. Feel free to check it out sometime.
cynthia
Thanks Cynthia, very nice to hear that you enjoy my blog. 🙂 Good luck with your Podangis.
This is a very nice one, Karma. I grow this one as well, and I’ve gotten away with windowsill conditions. I was surprised by how long-lasting the flowers are.
Thanks Ken! 🙂 Yes, I was surprised too how long the flowers lasted, especially since they looked so shear and frail.
First time I saw this orchid was here and always kept it in the back of my mind. Today I won the plant through a raffle at a local orchid society meeting! Can’t wait to see it bloom! Yay!
Nice! I am happy for you, it is a lovely plant. Good luck!
The flowers look like small ghosts, amazingly beautiful!
Thanks Louise! 🙂
I recently got my first Podangis and now keep it in a tiny ceramic pot with basacubes and granite gravel. The new root travels above the surface of the gravel – seems it does not want to go any deeper… It grows on western window in the shade of other orchids
Hi Catherine! I am not sure what your question is about your Podangis. I am not familiar with basacubes as a growing medium, but if you suspect that the roots are not seeking to grow down into the medium, then perhaps it is not quite righht for the plant. Too dry perhaps? Too compact? If the plant is looking healthy I would not worry about it too much, but if it is looking stressed then try changing the growing conditions. I grow my Podangis mounted on cork in fairly high RH (relative humidity) in a vivarium. Good luck!
Thanks a lot! It is looking OK and shooting 2 new growths. So, I’ll keep it as it is for a while – maybe the range of conditions which suit Podangis is greater than it seems.
Good luck!