Expensive orchid, white slippery powder on media/roots

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The white powdery stuff is fungus. It’s mostly harmless. A change in potting media will take care of that.

Phal bellina and Phal violacea inhabit tropical seasonal swamp forests and can be found growing on trees near the waterline and above in the wild. They can oftentimes be mistaken for the tree’s foliage to those not paying close attention or to the untrained eye.

The goal, as mentioned, is humid air to the roots with the occasional wetting to simulate a rainy day.

Your “novelty Phals” need more moisture than the ones normally sold in big box stores, but they still need some air circulation to the roots and don’t like for the potting media to stay sopping wet all the time either.