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Caladenia dorrigoensis

Caladenia dorrigoensis
Photo: Lachlan Copeland, CC BY-SA 4.0

Caladenia dorrigoensis is a small, deciduous terrestrial orchid from the Dorrigo district of New South Wales, growing from an underground tuber with a single leaf and one white flower. It is a rare, narrowly distributed woodland species and is not generally grown in gardens.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Part shade
Water
Water moderately while in growth, then keep nearly dry during summer dormancy.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty humus-rich mix with leaf litter.
Temperature
10–25 °C; protect from hard frost
How easy
Hard
Native range
New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Caladenia dorrigoensis is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It has a single leaf and a single white flower with purple marks on its labellum.

Where it grows

This orchid appears to be confined to the a small area in the Dorrigo district where it grows in woodland with a shrubby understorey.

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 dorrigoensis 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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