Epidendrum radicans

Rounded clusters of bright fiery orange flowers from which emerge a bright sunny yellow and orange speckled rolled lip creating a tube for feeding butterflies and hummingbirds. The Reed-Stem Epidendrum is truly one of the easiest to grow and flower orchids that can be grown as an informal groundcover under tropical conditions like zone 10. For us, this rewarding orchid flowers most heavily from spring through summer. Provide a well-drained soil, amend with peat moss in dry, very sandy soils. 4-5 plants per pot. As a container plant, grow the Reed-Stem Epidendrum in medium to small orchid bark although these are some of the most adaptable orchids and can be grown in most good quality soil mixes. You can also mix in volcanic rock and or expanded shale (we call it hadite). Stems that have finished flowering can be cut off near the ground or they can be allowed to pup (these are called keiki's for Epidendrums).