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Caladenia peisleyi

Caladenia peisleyi is a small terrestrial ground orchid from south-eastern Australia, with a single leaf and one greenish-yellow flower striped pale red, flowering in spring. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, and it is hard to tell apart from related Caladenia species.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Part shade
Water
Water moderately during its winter growing season and let it dry off after flowering while dormant.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil with some organic matter, such as native heath conditions.
Temperature
Cool to mild temperatures, roughly 5-25 °C; tolerates frost in its native range.
How easy
Hard
Native range
New South Wales to Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Caladenia peisleyi is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a ground orchid with a single leaf and a single greenish-yellow flower with pale red stripes. It is difficult to distinguish from several other Caladenia species.

Where it grows

Caladenia peisleyi is only known from East Gippsland where it grows in heath and heathy forest. It probably also occurs on the south coast of New South Wales.

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 peisleyi 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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