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Cephalanthera rubra
Red-helleborine · Red Cephalanthera
Tier 2 Difficulty: hard Water: high Light: partial_sun
Temperature
10–25 °C
Soil pH
5–6
Hardiness
Zone 6–6
Click count
38
Observations
2,731
Description
Source: leafsnapCephalanthera rubra, known as red helleborine, is an orchid found in Europe, North Africa and southwest Asia. Although reasonably common in parts of its range, this Cephalanthera has always been one of the rarest orchids in Britain.
Care Guide
💧 Water
☀️ Light Partial sun
Ideal: Partial sun
🌡️ Temperature 10–25°C
Ideal temperature: 10–25°C
💨 Humidity
Humidity:
🪴 Soil 5-6
Soil pH: 5-6
🌱 Fertilizer
🪴 Pot & Repot
✂️ Pruning
🌿 Propagating
🐛 Diseases & pets
☠️ Toxicity
Characteristics
- Plant Type
- Herb
- Life Cycle
- Perennial
- Genus
- Cephalanthera
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Hardiness Zone
- 6
- Mature Height
- 20 cm to 61 cm
- Mature Spread
- 23 cm to 30 cm
- Leaf Color
- Medium Sea Green
- Leaf Type
- Deciduous
- Flower Color
- Pink
- Flower Size
- 5.08 cm
- Bloom Time
- Early summer, Mid summer
- Planting Time
- Spring, Summer
- Harvest Time
- Late summer, Early fall
- Native Area
- Turkey, Sweden, Austria, Slovakia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Morocco, Croatia, Belarus, Russia, Germany, Estonia, Romania, Latvia, Moldova, Portugal, Netherlands, France, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Poland, Armenia, Greece, Ukraine, Serbia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Norway, Syria, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Iran, Albania, Azerbaijan, United Kingdom, Hungary, Algeria, Turkmenistan
Tags (5)
Common Names (2)
en Red-helleborine
en Red Cephalanthera