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Caladenia capillata
Also called Fine Haired Caladenia
Caladenia capillata is a small terrestrial ground orchid from southern Australia, with a single hairy leaf and up to three cream flowers with long thread-like petals. It is grown in cultivation by enthusiasts who reproduce its native mallee and heath conditions, as it is hard to keep in gardens.
Caladenia capillata, commonly known as white daddy long legs or wispy spider orchid, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to Victoria and South Australia. It is a ground orchid with a single hairy leaf and up to three cream-coloured to yellowish flowers with long, thread-like petals and sepals and a very small labellum.
This caladenia grows in north-western Victoria in mallee scrub and in heath, malle or light scrub in rocky places in South Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Caladenia capillata 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.
