Fire-star orchid
Epidendrum radicans Pav. ex Lindl.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- —
Orchidaceae
Also called Rainbow orchid, Ground-rooting epidendrum, Reed-stem epidendrum, Poormans Orchid, Fire star orchid
Formerly Epidendrum pratense, Epidendrum rhizophorum
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to ColombiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 1.5 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Orange, redRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Chinese
- 血紅樹蘭, 树兰, 蘆莖樹蘭
- Spanish
- Estrella de fuego, Españolita, Orquídea bandera española
- Portuguese
- Orquídea-estrela-de-fogo
- Chinese (China)
- 红花树兰
- Russian
- Эпидендрум укореняющийся
- Finnish
- tuliepidendrum
- Slovak
- epidendrum zakoreňujúce
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Attribution
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Epidendrum radicans (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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