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Boddington Spider Orchid

Caladenia hopperiana

Also called Quindanning Spider Orchid

Boddington Spider Orchid
Photo: Hugo Innes, CC BY 4.0

Boddington Spider Orchid is a small deciduous terrestrial orchid from a tuber, native only to the Quindanning district of south-west Western Australia, where it grows in woodland near creeks and swamps. It is rarely cultivated and is best grown in a cool, moist, well-drained native-style bed or pot with a seasonal dormancy.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil moist during its winter-spring growing season and let it dry out while dormant in summer.
Soil
Sandy or loamy, well-drained soil with added leaf litter or peat, kept slightly moist.
Temperature
10–22 °C; protect from heat above 30 °C and hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Caladenia hopperiana is a species of orchid endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has a single leaf and up to four creamy-yellow flowers with faint red markings.

Where it grows

This caladenia is only known from the Qunidanning district in the Jarrah Forest biogeographic region where it grows in woodland near creeks and swamps.

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 hopperiana 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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