POT FOR CULTURING AN EPIPHYTE AND EPIPHYTE POTTED THEREIN

摘要

A pot for culturing an epiphyte, in particular an orchid, is provided. The pot is integrally injection molded from a transparent plastic and has a bottom, a lower edge, an upper edge and a sidewall extending between the lower edge and the upper edge. The sidewall of the pot is provided with an outwardly protruding lip at the level of the upper edge. A cross section through the sidewall of the pot, tangent to the lower face of the lip, has a substantially hexagonal or octagonal shape. Consequently, the pot, at least at the top, is hexagonal or octagonal, thus allowing more pots to be positioned per unit area compared to a round shape having the same diameter as the diameter of the circumscribed circle of the hexagonal or octagonal shape.