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Coast spider orchid

Caladenia conferta

Coast spider orchid
Photo: David Sando, CC BY 3.0

Coast spider orchid is a small, deciduous terrestrial orchid from an underground tuber, with a single hairy leaf and usually one yellowish-green flower with red stripes. It is native to a restricted area of South Australia's mallee woodland and is rarely grown in cultivation.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Part shade
Water
Water sparingly while the leaf is active, then keep dry while the plant is dormant over summer.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty native-type soil.
Temperature
Cool to mild temperate conditions; tolerates cold, sensitive to prolonged heat.
How easy
Hard
Native range
South Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Caladenia conferta, commonly known as the crowded spider orchid or coast spider-orchid, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in South Australia. It is a ground orchid with a single hairy leaf, and usually a single yellowish-green flower with red markings on a wiry, hairy stalk.

Where it grows

This caladenia grows in mallee woodland. It is found in the Eyre Peninsula, Yorke Peninsula and South-East botanical 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 conferta 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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