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Caladenia bicalliata

Caladenia bicalliata
Photo: Paul Winthrop, CC BY 4.0

Caladenia bicalliata is a native Australian spider orchid with a single hairy leaf and one or two cream flowers in late winter and spring. It is a deciduous tuberous terrestrial that grows from an underground tuber and is found in the wild in calcareous coastal soils.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly while growing in the cooler months and keep dry while dormant after flowering.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or calcareous mix.
Temperature
Cool to mild; tolerates winter frosts, avoid prolonged heat.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. & S. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Caladenia bicalliata is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is native to the south-west of Western Australia and coastal areas of South Australia. It has a single erect, hairy leaf and one or two cream-coloured flowers. There are two subspecies differing in the size and colour of the flowers.

Where it grows

This spider orchid occurs in a narrow coastal strip, growing in calcareous soil between Kalbarri and Esperance in Western Australia and along the south-east coast but sometimes up to 100 km (60 mi) inland in South Australia.

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 bicalliata 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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