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Caladenia septuosa
Koppio spider orchid is a deciduous terrestrial orchid with an underground tuber, a single leaf and usually one greenish-cream flower with red stripes, native only to woodland on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. It is a rare, protected wild species, so growing it is best left to specialist conservation or orchid growers using seed or legally sourced tubers.
Caladenia septuosa, commonly known as the Koppio spider orchid, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a ground orchid with a single erect, sparsely hairy leaf and usually only one greenish-cream flower with red stripes along the sepals and petals.
The Koppio spider orchid is endemic to the Eyre Peninsula where it grows in woodland.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Caladenia septuosa 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.
