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Caladenia incrassata
A small terrestrial orchid from south-west Western Australia that grows from an underground tuber and bears a single showy flower in late winter and spring. It needs a dormant, dry summer and grows in rocky, well-drained sites under shrubs.
Caladenia incrassata, commonly known as the puppet clown orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has a single, hairy leaf and usually only one greenish-yellow and red flower which has a red-striped labellum.
The puppet clown orchid occurs between Paynes Find and Southern Cross in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Murchison and Yalgoo biogeographic regions where it grows under shrubs on granite outcrops and on ironstone hills.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Caladenia incrassata 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.
