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Kalbarri jester orchid

Caladenia bryceana subsp. cracens

A small, deciduous terrestrial orchid from the sandplains of Western Australia, grown from an underground tuber with a single hairy leaf and one flower. It is rarely grown in gardens and is best left in the wild or grown only by specialist native orchid growers.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Part shade
Water
Water sparingly while in growth in winter and spring, then keep almost dry while dormant in summer.
Soil
Sandy, free-draining native soil with low nutrients.
Temperature
Mild Mediterranean-type climate; tolerant of cool winters and hot dry summers.
How easy
Hard

About

Caladenia bryceana subsp. cracens, commonly known as the northern dwarf spider orchid, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has a single spreading, hairy leaf and a single green to apricot-coloured flower. It is a small orchid and difficult to find, even when quite abundant in a particular location. It has a more northerly distribution than subspecies bryceana which grows closer to Albany.

Where it grows

Northern dwarf spider orchid occurs between Northampton and Nerren Nerren Station in the Geraldton Sandplains biogeographic region where it grows in heathland and woodland, often under thickets of Melaleuca uncinata.

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 bryceana subsp. cracens 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.

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