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Caladenia colorata
Also called Colourful Spider Orchid
Coloured spider-orchid is a small, deciduous terrestrial orchid from southern Australia, grown from an underground tuber and bearing one creamy-green flower with red to purple-brown markings. It is a wild woodland species and is not a common garden or houseplant.
Caladenia colorata, commonly known as coloured spider-orchid, small western spider-orchid and painted spider-orchid, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to South Australia and possibly Victoria. It is a ground orchid with a single hairy leaf, and usually a single creamy-green flower with blood-red or purple-brown markings and with dark tips on the petals and sepals.
This caladenia usually grows in woodland. In South Australia it is found in the Mount Lofty Ranges, in the Murray–Darling basin and in the south-east of the state. In Victoria it has been found between the Glenelg River and the Little Desert National Park in the far west of the state although plants are only tentatively placed in this species, pending further work.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Caladenia colorata 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.
