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Castlemaine Spider Orchid

Caladenia clavescens

Castlemaine Spider Orchid
Photo: Cathy Powers, CC BY 2.5 au

Castlemaine Spider Orchid is a small, deciduous ground orchid from central Victoria, Australia, with one hairy leaf and usually one dark red to maroon flower in spring. It is a wild native rather than a common garden or houseplant, and it grows from an underground tuber that needs a dormant period.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil lightly moist while it is growing in spring, then let it dry out while the plant is dormant in summer.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty native soil with some organic matter.
Temperature
Cool temperate; tolerates winter frost in its native range.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Caladenia clavescens is a plant in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is endemic to central Victoria in Australia. It is a ground orchid with a single hairy leaf and usually a single dark red to maroon flower.

Where it grows

Caladenia clavescens occurs in central Victoria near the towns of Campbells Creek, Castlemaine, and Chewton.

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 clavescens 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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