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White fingers

Caladenia chlorostyla

Also called Green Column Caladenia

White fingers
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0

White fingers is a small terrestrial orchid endemic to New Zealand, growing from an underground tuber and bearing one or occasionally a few pale flowers on a wiry stem. It is a native ground orchid best grown in sunny, open conditions with good drainage, and it is rarely cultivated.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Full sun
Water
Water moderately during active growth and keep nearly dry while the plant is dormant.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty soil with some organic matter.
Temperature
10–25 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
New Zealand
Climate
subtropical

About

Caladenia chlorostyla is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to New Zealand. It is a ground orchid with a single narrow, sparsely hairy leaf and a thin wiry stem usually bearing one pale mauve, pinkish or white flower.

Where it grows

This caladenia grows in sunny position in scrub but also in old-growth forests and frequently in mature pine plantations.

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 chlorostyla 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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