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Small-clubbed spider orchid

Caladenia clavula

Small-clubbed spider orchid
Photo: Lachlan Copeland, CC BY-SA 4.0

Caladenia clavula is a small terrestrial orchid from South Australia, growing from an underground tuber and producing a single greenish-yellow flower with red stripes. It is a wild species of sparse woodland and mallee, rarely grown by home gardeners, and is best left in native habitat.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Part shade
Water
Water sparingly while in leaf in winter and spring, then keep dry during summer dormancy.
Soil
Sandy, well-drained soil with leaf litter, like native woodland soils.
Temperature
Tolerates cool winters and hot dry summers; protect from frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
South Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Caladenia clavula, commonly known as the small-clubbed spider orchid, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a ground orchid which grows singly or in loose groups and has a singly hairy leaf and usually a single greenish-yellow flower with red stripes.

Where it grows

This caladenia grows in sparse woodland and mallee in the Flinders Ranges and Eyre Peninsula regions of 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 clavula 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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