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Mauve Fingers

Caladenia bartlettii

Mauve Fingers
Photo: Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0

Mauve Fingers is a small terrestrial ground orchid endemic to New Zealand, growing from an underground tuber with one narrow leaf and a wiry stem bearing a short-lived magenta to pink flower. It is a native of shaded kauri forest floors and is not a common garden plant, so it should be grown with native-habitat conditions in mind.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Shade
Water
Keep the soil moist during active growth and let it dry slightly while dormant.
Soil
Free-draining, poor, humus-rich forest-type soil with leaf litter.
Temperature
Cool to mild, tolerant of frost; protect from hot dry conditions.
How easy
Hard
Native range
New Zealand North I.
Climate
subtropical

About

Caladenia bartlettii is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to New Zealand. It is a ground orchid with a single narrow, hairy leaf and a thin wiry stem usually bearing one short-lived mauve to pink flower.

Where it grows

This caladenia grows in shady places in poor soil, always in forests dominated by kauri trees. It is found on both the North and South Islands of New Zealand.

Other Caladenia plants

Coastal spider orchid · Canberra spider orchid · Caladenia ×aestantha · Summer spider orchid · Fairy orchid · Stegostyla Alpina · Boranup spider orchid · Bundarra spider orchid · Charming spider orchid · Dainty spider orchid · Dainty blue china orchid · Genoa spider orchid

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Caladenia bartlettii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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